fête votive
\fɛt vɔ.tiv\
The verdict
“fête votive” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fête religieuse célébrée en l’honneur d'un saint patron.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fete-votive · fête votive · French
fête votive · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fête votive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛt vɔ.tiv\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fête votive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fête votive is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛt vɔ.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fête religieuse célébrée en l’honneur d'un saint patron.".
fête votive doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fête votive, spelled F-Ê-T-E- -V-O-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Fête religieuse célébrée en l’honneur d'un saint patron.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fête votive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet individu apparaissait en cette bonne ville le matin de la fête votive, à la mi-septembre, poussant son matériel sur un petit chariot d’enfant dépenaillé.
S’étendaient au pied de la colline, des bois, des prés verts qui attiraient les Parisiens, les dimanches d’été et le jour de la fête votive. La plupart, dit la chronique, « ne vont que pour grenouiller et rire avec les filles. »
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.