effacer
French, verb/e.fa.se/
effacer is spelled E-F-F-A-C-E-R (7 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written French, the 5,966th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Effacer is a French verb meaning “to erase” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire disparaître plus ou moins, en parlant de la forme, des couleurs de quelque chose”.
What does effacer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to erase
- 2
to efface
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire disparaître plus ou moins, en parlant de la forme, des couleurs de quelque chose. 2. Annuler. 3. Surpasser, éclipser. 4. Pardonner.
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 effacer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- effaçant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- effacé participle past
- efface first-person indicative present
- effaces indicative present second-person
- effaçons first-person indicative plural
- effacez indicative plural present
- effacent indicative plural present
- effaçais first-person imperfect indicative
- effaçait imperfect indicative singular
- effacions first-person imperfect indicative
- effaciez imperfect indicative plural
- effaçaient imperfect indicative plural
- effaçai first-person historic indicative
- effaças historic indicative past
- effaça historic indicative past
- effaçâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce effacer?
- /e.fa.se/
- \e.fa.se\
- \ɛ.fa.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to effacer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is effacer in French?
effacer appears 12 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).