joyeuses fêtes
\ʒwa.jøz fɛt\
The verdict
“joyeuses fêtes” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Souhait échangé à l’occasion des jours de fêtes, principalement en fin d’année.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | joyeuses fêtes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒwa.jøz fɛt\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “joyeuses fêtes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for joyeuses fêtes is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒwa.jøz fɛt\. 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: "Souhait échangé à l’occasion des jours de fêtes, principalement en fin d’année.".
No misspelling variants are generated for joyeuses fêtes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 joyeuses fêtes, spelled J-O-Y-E-U-S-E-S- -F-Ê-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Souhait échangé à l’occasion des jours de fêtes, principalement en fin d’année.
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- The one correct French spelling is J-O-Y-E-U-S-E-S- -F-Ê-T-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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