effacer
\e.fa.se\
The verdict
“effacer” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,974. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,974
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire disparaître plus ou moins, en parlant de la forme, des couleurs de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effacer · effacer · French
effacer · rank #5,974 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,974
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH economie
Nearest frequency peer: economie (-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 « effacer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- définit
définit
94,031 corpus weight
- défis
défis
94,030 corpus weight
- economie
economie
94,028 corpus weight
- effacer
effacer
94,027 corpus weight
- efficaces
efficaces
94,026 corpus weight
- embrasse
embrasse
94,025 corpus weight
What this shows « effacer » 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 | effacer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.fa.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « effacer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around effacer (IPA \e.fa.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,974 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for effacer, with forms such as "efacer", "efafcer", and "effaccer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "effrayer", "efforcer", "effacera", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is effacer, spelled E-F-F-A-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire disparaître plus ou moins, en parlant de la forme, des couleurs de quelque chose.
- 2Annuler.
- 3Surpasser, éclipser.
- 4Pardonner.
- 5S’écarter pour laisser passer quelqu’un ou pour lui laisser l'avantage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how effacer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Insensiblement la sombre humeur qu’on voyait sur leurs traits s’atténuait, s’effaçait. De menaçants, ils devenaient gouailleurs, puis doucereux, entreprenants.
Le temps a effacé les traits et les couleurs de ce tableau. Effacer l’empreinte d’une médaille, ou, simplement, Effacer une médaille.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efacer
- efafcer
- effaccer
- effacerr
- effacre
- effaecr
- effcaer
- fefacer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of effacer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).