effaça
\e.fa.sa\
The verdict
“effaça” is uncommon French (frequency #97,913 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,913
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de effacer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effaca · effaça · French
effaça · rank #97,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,913
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH EEP
Nearest frequency peer: EEP (-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 « effaça »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dézingue
dézingue
2,091 corpus weight
- EEP
EEP
2,089 corpus weight
- effaça
effaça
2,088 corpus weight
- effondrerait
effondrerait
2,087 corpus weight
- effritent
effritent
2,086 corpus weight
- eider
eider
2,085 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « effaça » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effaça |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.fa.sa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « effaça » en français
Rare enough to double-check
effaça is uncommon French at frequency #97,913 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.fa.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de effacer.".
effaça has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is effaça, spelled E-F-F-A-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de effacer.
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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