fête du Nouvel An

/\fɛt dy nu.vɛ.l‿ɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

fête du Nouvel An is aFrenchnoun. It means: Célébrations et festivités marquant le passage d’une année à la suivante. Pronounced \fɛt dy nu.vɛ.l‿ɑ̃\.

Key facts for fête du Nouvel An
PropertyValue
Headwordfête du Nouvel An
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fɛt dy nu.vɛ.l‿ɑ̃\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

fête du Nouvel An is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fête du Nouvel An is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛt dy nu.vɛ.l‿ɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Célébrations et festivités marquant le passage d’une année à la suivante.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fête du Nouvel An in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fête du Nouvel An, spelled F-Ê-T-E- -D-U- -N-O-U-V-E-L- -A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Célébrations et festivités marquant le passage d’une année à la suivante.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fête du Nouvel An"?
"fête du Nouvel An" is spelled F-Ê-T-E- -D-U- -N-O-U-V-E-L- -A-N. The IPA pronunciation is \fɛt dy nu.vɛ.l‿ɑ̃\.
What does "fête du Nouvel An" mean?
As a noun, "fête du Nouvel An" means: Célébrations et festivités marquant le passage d’une année à la suivante.
How do you pronounce "fête du Nouvel An"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fête du Nouvel An" is \fɛt dy nu.vɛ.l‿ɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fête du Nouvel An" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.