fête foraine
\fɛt fɔ.ʁɛn\
The verdict
“fête foraine” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Rassemblement itinérant (ou revenant à date fixe) en plein air de forains indépendants qui regroupe des attractions et manèges, ainsi que divers stands (jeux de tirs, vente de friandises ...).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fête foraine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛt fɔ.ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fête foraine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fête foraine is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛt fɔ.ʁɛn\. 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: "Rassemblement itinérant (ou revenant à date fixe) en plein air de forains indépendants qui regroupe des attractions et manèges, ainsi que divers stands (jeux de tirs, vente de friandises ...).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fête foraine, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fête foraine, spelled F-Ê-T-E- -F-O-R-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Rassemblement itinérant (ou revenant à date fixe) en plein air de forains indépendants qui regroupe des attractions et manèges, ainsi que divers stands (jeux de tirs, vente de friandises ...).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fête foraine”
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- The one correct French spelling is F-Ê-T-E- -F-O-R-A-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛt fɔ.ʁɛn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.