effacée
\e.fa.se\
The verdict
“effacée” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,956. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,956
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de effacé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effacee · effacée · French
effacée · rank #24,956 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,956
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ee
Nearest frequency peer: ee (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “effacée”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- détestait
détestait
75,048 corpus weight
- ee
ee
75,046 corpus weight
- effacée
effacée
75,045 corpus weight
- encombre
encombre
75,044 corpus weight
- enfantin
enfantin
75,043 corpus weight
- ensoleillée
ensoleillée
75,042 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “effacée” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | effacée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.fa.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “effacée” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around effacée (IPA \e.fa.se\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,956 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de effacé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for effacée, with forms such as "efacée", "efafcée", and "effaccée". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "effacer", "effrayée", "effacent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is effacée, spelled E-F-F-A-C-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de effacé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how effacée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sauveur apprit aussi qu’Anne Lechat était la nièce du premier mari de Mme Compain « un tordu que le soleil d’Afrique n’avait pas arrangé », qu’elle avait trente-cinq ans (fortiche le commissaire…) qu’elle vivait près de « La Grande Maison », un peu à l’écart, qu’elle était timide et effacée mais « bonne comme le pain, toujours prête à rendre service sans…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efacée
- efafcée
- effaccée
- effacee
- effaceé
- effaéce
- effcaée
- fefacée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of effacée - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "effacée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "effacée" maps to 6 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "effacer". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #24,956 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "E" letter cohort. E–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.