effacement
French, noun/e.fas.mɑ̃/
effacement is spelled E-F-F-A-C-E-M-E-N-T (10 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 22,196th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Effacement is a French masculine noun meaning “erasure (act of erasing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’effacer, de s’effacer”.
What does effacement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineerasure (act of erasing)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’effacer, de s’effacer. 2. Disparition partielle ou progressive. 3. Position en retrait, discrète. 4. Culture de l’effacement.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of effacement
- effacements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce effacement?
- /e.fas.mɑ̃/
- \e.fas.mɑ̃\
- [e.fas.mɑ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to effacement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is effacement in French?
effacement appears 1.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).