effaçant
\e.fa.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“effaçant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,236. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,236
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de effacer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effacant · effaçant · French
effaçant · rank #40,236 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,236
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Edinson
Nearest frequency peer: Edinson (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « effaçant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ecstasy
ecstasy
59,767 corpus weight
- Edinson
Edinson
59,766 corpus weight
- effaçant
effaçant
59,765 corpus weight
- effleurer
effleurer
59,764 corpus weight
- effrayantes
effrayantes
59,763 corpus weight
- ele
ele
59,762 corpus weight
What this shows « effaçant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effaçant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.fa.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « effaçant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around effaçant (IPA \e.fa.sɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,236 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de effacer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for effaçant, with forms such as "efafçant", "efaçant", and "effaaçnt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "effacent", "effarant", "effrayant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is effaçant, spelled E-F-F-A-Ç-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de effacer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how effaçant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efafçant
- efaçant
- effaaçnt
- effacant
- effaçannt
- effaçantt
- effaçatn
- effaçnat
- effçaant
- fefaçant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of effaçant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).