effaçait

\e.fa.sɛ\

/\e.fa.sɛ\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « effaçait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for effaçait
PropertyValue
Headwordeffaçait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.fa.sɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#73,951
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « effaçait » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).effaçaittombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « effendi » (#73,952), « Edu » (#73,949), « ECN » (#73,948). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « effaçait » est au #73,951. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de effacer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how effaçait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "effaçait"?
"effaçait" is spelled E-F-F-A-Ç-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \e.fa.sɛ\.
What does "effaçait" mean?
As a verb, "effaçait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de effacer.
How do you pronounce "effaçait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "effaçait" is \e.fa.sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "effaçait" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "effaçait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list