feuilleton
/ˌfəɪˈtɔn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.47 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Now and then, when luck had favoured me, I had managed to get five shillings for a feuilleton from some newspaper or other."
- "The feuilleton, like the other serious, trivial, and merely curious stories on the newspaper page, served up an excess of details. For the most part, the feuilleton writer observed, rather than explained."
- "Indeed, more recent studies of the FZ [Frankfurter Zeitung] and the feuilleton genre also regard essays on fashion as unworthy of analysis — a gesture very similar to the condescending attitudes toward fashion journalism in the early 1920s."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌfəɪˈtɔn/
- British English: /ˈfəːɪtɒ̃/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
roman feuilleton
Frequently Paired Words
feuilletonist
roman feuilleton