diff --git a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/ParquetProperties.java b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/ParquetProperties.java
index f29214b458..f808a7092b 100644
--- a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/ParquetProperties.java
+++ b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/ParquetProperties.java
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ public class ParquetProperties {
   public static final boolean DEFAULT_STATISTICS_ENABLED = true;
   public static final boolean DEFAULT_SIZE_STATISTICS_ENABLED = true;
 
+  public static final boolean DEFAULT_DICTIONARY_EARLY_CHECK_ENABLED = true;
   public static final boolean DEFAULT_PAGE_WRITE_CHECKSUM_ENABLED = true;
 
   /**
@@ -131,6 +132,7 @@ public static WriterVersion fromString(String name) {
   private final int rowGroupRowCountLimit;
   private final int pageRowCountLimit;
   private final boolean pageWriteChecksumEnabled;
+  private final boolean dictionaryEarlyCheckEnabled;
   private final ColumnProperty<ByteStreamSplitMode> byteStreamSplitEnabled;
   private final Map<String, String> extraMetaData;
   private final ColumnProperty<Boolean> statistics;
@@ -163,6 +165,7 @@ private ParquetProperties(Builder builder) {
     this.rowGroupRowCountLimit = builder.rowGroupRowCountLimit;
     this.pageRowCountLimit = builder.pageRowCountLimit;
     this.pageWriteChecksumEnabled = builder.pageWriteChecksumEnabled;
+    this.dictionaryEarlyCheckEnabled = builder.dictionaryEarlyCheckEnabled;
     this.byteStreamSplitEnabled = builder.byteStreamSplitEnabled.build();
     this.extraMetaData = builder.extraMetaData;
     this.statistics = builder.statistics.build();
@@ -322,6 +325,10 @@ public boolean getPageWriteChecksumEnabled() {
     return pageWriteChecksumEnabled;
   }
 
+  public boolean isDictionaryEarlyCheckEnabled() {
+    return dictionaryEarlyCheckEnabled;
+  }
+
   public OptionalLong getBloomFilterNDV(ColumnDescriptor column) {
     Long ndv = bloomFilterNDVs.getValue(column);
     return ndv == null ? OptionalLong.empty() : OptionalLong.of(ndv);
@@ -415,6 +422,7 @@ public static class Builder {
     private int rowGroupRowCountLimit = DEFAULT_ROW_GROUP_ROW_COUNT_LIMIT;
     private int pageRowCountLimit = DEFAULT_PAGE_ROW_COUNT_LIMIT;
     private boolean pageWriteChecksumEnabled = DEFAULT_PAGE_WRITE_CHECKSUM_ENABLED;
+    private boolean dictionaryEarlyCheckEnabled = DEFAULT_DICTIONARY_EARLY_CHECK_ENABLED;
     private final ColumnProperty.Builder<ByteStreamSplitMode> byteStreamSplitEnabled;
     private Map<String, String> extraMetaData = new HashMap<>();
     private final ColumnProperty.Builder<Boolean> statistics;
@@ -450,6 +458,7 @@ private Builder(ParquetProperties toCopy) {
       this.allocator = toCopy.allocator;
       this.pageRowCountLimit = toCopy.pageRowCountLimit;
       this.pageWriteChecksumEnabled = toCopy.pageWriteChecksumEnabled;
+      this.dictionaryEarlyCheckEnabled = toCopy.dictionaryEarlyCheckEnabled;
       this.bloomFilterNDVs = ColumnProperty.builder(toCopy.bloomFilterNDVs);
       this.bloomFilterFPPs = ColumnProperty.builder(toCopy.bloomFilterFPPs);
       this.bloomFilterEnabled = ColumnProperty.builder(toCopy.bloomFilterEnabled);
@@ -709,6 +718,11 @@ public Builder withPageWriteChecksumEnabled(boolean val) {
       return this;
     }
 
+    public Builder withDictionaryEarlyCheckEnabled(boolean val) {
+      this.dictionaryEarlyCheckEnabled = val;
+      return this;
+    }
+
     public Builder withExtraMetaData(Map<String, String> extraMetaData) {
       this.extraMetaData = extraMetaData;
       return this;
diff --git a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/factory/DefaultValuesWriterFactory.java b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/factory/DefaultValuesWriterFactory.java
index 4c03e6b65e..5c88eb3041 100644
--- a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/factory/DefaultValuesWriterFactory.java
+++ b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/factory/DefaultValuesWriterFactory.java
@@ -111,7 +111,9 @@ static ValuesWriter dictWriterWithFallBack(
       ValuesWriter writerToFallBackTo) {
     if (parquetProperties.isDictionaryEnabled(path)) {
       return FallbackValuesWriter.of(
-          dictionaryWriter(path, parquetProperties, dictPageEncoding, dataPageEncoding), writerToFallBackTo);
+          dictionaryWriter(path, parquetProperties, dictPageEncoding, dataPageEncoding),
+          writerToFallBackTo,
+          parquetProperties.isDictionaryEarlyCheckEnabled());
     } else {
       return writerToFallBackTo;
     }
diff --git a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/fallback/FallbackValuesWriter.java b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/fallback/FallbackValuesWriter.java
index 7f56ef2192..03a2bd64b0 100644
--- a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/fallback/FallbackValuesWriter.java
+++ b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/fallback/FallbackValuesWriter.java
@@ -30,7 +30,12 @@ public class FallbackValuesWriter<I extends ValuesWriter & RequiresFallback, F e
 
   public static <I extends ValuesWriter & RequiresFallback, F extends ValuesWriter> FallbackValuesWriter<I, F> of(
       I initialWriter, F fallBackWriter) {
-    return new FallbackValuesWriter<>(initialWriter, fallBackWriter);
+    return new FallbackValuesWriter<>(initialWriter, fallBackWriter, true);
+  }
+
+  public static <I extends ValuesWriter & RequiresFallback, F extends ValuesWriter> FallbackValuesWriter<I, F> of(
+      I initialWriter, F fallBackWriter, boolean checkCompressionOnFirstPage) {
+    return new FallbackValuesWriter<>(initialWriter, fallBackWriter, checkCompressionOnFirstPage);
   }
 
   /**
@@ -44,6 +49,8 @@ public static <I extends ValuesWriter & RequiresFallback, F extends ValuesWriter
 
   private boolean fellBackAlready = false;
 
+  private final boolean checkCompressionOnFirstPage;
+
   /**
    * writer currently written to
    */
@@ -63,10 +70,15 @@ public static <I extends ValuesWriter & RequiresFallback, F extends ValuesWriter
   private boolean firstPage = true;
 
   public FallbackValuesWriter(I initialWriter, F fallBackWriter) {
+    this(initialWriter, fallBackWriter, true);
+  }
+
+  public FallbackValuesWriter(I initialWriter, F fallBackWriter, boolean checkCompressionOnFirstPage) {
     super();
     this.initialWriter = initialWriter;
     this.fallBackWriter = fallBackWriter;
     this.currentWriter = initialWriter;
+    this.checkCompressionOnFirstPage = checkCompressionOnFirstPage;
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -82,7 +94,7 @@ public BytesInput getBytes() {
     if (!fellBackAlready && firstPage) {
       // we use the first page to decide if we're going to use this encoding
       BytesInput bytes = initialWriter.getBytes();
-      if (!initialWriter.isCompressionSatisfying(rawDataByteSize, bytes.size())) {
+      if (checkCompressionOnFirstPage && !initialWriter.isCompressionSatisfying(rawDataByteSize, bytes.size())) {
         fallBack();
       } else {
         return bytes;
diff --git a/parquet-column/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/fallback/TestFallbackValuesWriter.java b/parquet-column/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/fallback/TestFallbackValuesWriter.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8ffb6eac94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/parquet-column/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/fallback/TestFallbackValuesWriter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.parquet.column.values.fallback;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+import org.apache.parquet.bytes.DirectByteBufferAllocator;
+import org.apache.parquet.bytes.TrackingByteBufferAllocator;
+import org.apache.parquet.column.Encoding;
+import org.apache.parquet.column.values.dictionary.DictionaryValuesWriter.PlainIntegerDictionaryValuesWriter;
+import org.apache.parquet.column.values.plain.PlainValuesWriter;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class TestFallbackValuesWriter {
+
+  private TrackingByteBufferAllocator allocator;
+
+  @Before
+  public void initAllocator() {
+    allocator = TrackingByteBufferAllocator.wrap(new DirectByteBufferAllocator());
+  }
+
+  @After
+  public void closeAllocator() {
+    allocator.close();
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testEarlyCheckDisabledPreservesDictionary() throws Exception {
+    int dictPageSize = 1024 * 1024;
+    PlainIntegerDictionaryValuesWriter dictWriter = new PlainIntegerDictionaryValuesWriter(
+        dictPageSize, Encoding.PLAIN_DICTIONARY, Encoding.PLAIN_DICTIONARY, allocator);
+    PlainValuesWriter plainWriter = new PlainValuesWriter(1024, 1024 * 1024, allocator);
+
+    FallbackValuesWriter<PlainIntegerDictionaryValuesWriter, PlainValuesWriter> writer =
+        FallbackValuesWriter.of(dictWriter, plainWriter, false);
+
+    try {
+      // Write many distinct values — would normally cause isCompressionSatisfying to fail
+      for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
+        writer.writeInteger(i);
+      }
+
+      writer.getBytes();
+      Encoding encoding = writer.getEncoding();
+
+      assertTrue(
+          "Dictionary encoding should be preserved when early check is disabled",
+          encoding.usesDictionary());
+    } finally {
+      writer.close();
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testEarlyCheckEnabledFallsBack() throws Exception {
+    int dictPageSize = 1024 * 1024;
+    PlainIntegerDictionaryValuesWriter dictWriter = new PlainIntegerDictionaryValuesWriter(
+        dictPageSize, Encoding.PLAIN_DICTIONARY, Encoding.PLAIN_DICTIONARY, allocator);
+    PlainValuesWriter plainWriter = new PlainValuesWriter(1024, 1024 * 1024, allocator);
+
+    FallbackValuesWriter<PlainIntegerDictionaryValuesWriter, PlainValuesWriter> writer =
+        FallbackValuesWriter.of(dictWriter, plainWriter, true);
+
+    try {
+      // Write many distinct values — encoded size will exceed raw size
+      for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
+        writer.writeInteger(i);
+      }
+
+      writer.getBytes();
+      Encoding encoding = writer.getEncoding();
+
+      assertFalse(
+          "Should fall back to plain encoding when early check is enabled with high cardinality",
+          encoding.usesDictionary());
+    } finally {
+      writer.close();
+    }
+  }
+}