fêtée
\fe.te\
The verdict
“fêtée” is uncommon French (frequency #61,551 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,551
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de fêter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fetee · fêtée · French
fêtée · rank #61,551 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,551
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fuckin
Nearest frequency peer: fuckin (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « fêtée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- frontons
frontons
38,454 corpus weight
- fréquentez
fréquentez
38,453 corpus weight
- fuckin
fuckin
38,451 corpus weight
- fêtée
fêtée
38,450 corpus weight
- galen
galen
38,449 corpus weight
- ganache
ganache
38,447 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fêtée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fêtée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fe.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fêtée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fêtée is uncommon French at frequency #61,551 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fe.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de fêter.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fêtée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fêtée, spelled F-Ê-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de fêter.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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