effaçait
\e.fa.sɛ\
The verdict
“effaçait” is uncommon French (frequency #73,951 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,951
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de effacer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effacait · effaçait · French
effaçait · rank #73,951 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,951
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effendi
Nearest frequency peer: effendi (+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 « effaçait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ECN
ECN
26,053 corpus weight
- Edu
Edu
26,052 corpus weight
- effaçait
effaçait
26,050 corpus weight
- effendi
effendi
26,049 corpus weight
- Egyptian
Egyptian
26,047 corpus weight
- Eis
Eis
26,046 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « effaçait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effaçait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.fa.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « effaçait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
effaçait is uncommon French at frequency #73,951 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.fa.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de effacer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for effaçait, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is effaçait, spelled E-F-F-A-Ç-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de effacer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how effaçait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au lever et au coucher du soleil, les rayons obliques enflammaient les murs ocrés de la ville. Le reste de la journée, le soleil effaçait toute couleur, écrasait tout relief. Il brûlait tout.
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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