effaré
French, adjective
effaré is spelled E-F-F-A-R-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 51,956th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Effaré is a French adjective meaning “aghast, alarmed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of effarer. Without its accent, effare is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Hagard, stupéfait”.
What does effaré mean in English?
adjective
- 1
aghast, alarmed
verb
- 1
past participle of effarer
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Hagard, stupéfait. 2. Se dit d'un cheval debout sur ses pattes arrière et battant l’air des antérieures. À rapprocher d’acculé, cabré, effarouché, effrayé, forcené et furieux.
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 effaré
- effarée feminine
- effarés masculine plural
- effarées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to effaré
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is effaré in French?
effaré appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).