effaceur
\e.fa.sœʁ\
The verdict
“effaceur” is uncommon French (frequency #91,639 among 201,161 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,639
- frequency rank, French
- 201,161
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Stylo permettant d’effacer l’encre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effaceur · effaceur · French
effaceur · rank #91,639 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,639
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 201,161
- PHOTO-FINISH effeuillage
Nearest frequency peer: effeuillage (+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 “effaceur”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- détournes
détournes
8,368 corpus weight
- Eastbourne
Eastbourne
8,366 corpus weight
- effaceur
effaceur
8,362 corpus weight
- effeuillage
effeuillage
8,361 corpus weight
- efforçaient
efforçaient
8,359 corpus weight
- embarquaient
embarquaient
8,357 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “effaceur” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effaceur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.fa.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “effaceur” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
effaceur is uncommon French at frequency #91,639 among 201,161 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.fa.sœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for effaceur in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is effaceur, spelled E-F-F-A-C-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Stylo permettant d’effacer l’encre.
- 2Qui estompe ou supprime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how effaceur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il utilise trop souvent son effaceur.
Adrien Simkolochuski appartenait à cette race d’artisans pour qui toute journée passée est une journée de gagnée. Il vivait avec une sorte d’effaceur dans la tête. Sitôt qu’il avait raccroché, qu’il n’entendait pas votre voix, vous n’existiez plus.
This word in other languages
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "effaceur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.