effarante
\e.fa.ʁɑ̃t\
The verdict
“effarante” is uncommon French (frequency #70,589 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,589
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de effarant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effarante · effarante · French
effarante · rank #70,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,589
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emballes
Nearest frequency peer: emballes (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « effarante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Díaz
Díaz
29,417 corpus weight
- effarante
effarante
29,412 corpus weight
- emballes
emballes
29,411 corpus weight
- embaumement
embaumement
29,410 corpus weight
- embrassades
embrassades
29,409 corpus weight
- emménagent
emménagent
29,408 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « effarante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effarante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.fa.ʁɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « effarante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
effarante is uncommon French at frequency #70,589 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.fa.ʁɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de effarant.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for effarante in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is effarante, spelled E-F-F-A-R-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de effarant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how effarante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces bâtiments nommés insulae (îles) s’écroulaient de temps à autre, mais plus souvent encore ils étaient la proie des flammes qui se propageaient avec une vitesse effarante aux pâtés voisins.
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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