effaroucher
\e.fa.ʁu.ʃe\
The verdict
“effaroucher” is uncommon French (frequency #95,854 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,854
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Épouvanter, effrayer et faire fuir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effaroucher · effaroucher · French
effaroucher · rank #95,854 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,854
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effarement
Nearest frequency peer: effarement (-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 « effaroucher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ecclésiales
ecclésiales
4,151 corpus weight
- effarement
effarement
4,148 corpus weight
- effaroucher
effaroucher
4,147 corpus weight
- Eifel
Eifel
4,146 corpus weight
- EMG
EMG
4,143 corpus weight
- emmenons
emmenons
4,142 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « effaroucher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effaroucher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.fa.ʁu.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #95,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « effaroucher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
effaroucher is uncommon French at frequency #95,854 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.fa.ʁu.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for effaroucher in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 effaroucher, spelled E-F-F-A-R-O-U-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Épouvanter, effrayer et faire fuir.
- 2Rendre une personne si peu traitable qu’elle s’éloigne de vous.
- 3Subtiliser, voler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how effaroucher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vous demande pardon, dit-il, de vous faire faire ce détour, mais il y a ici un étang à castors, et je crains de les effaroucher.
Ce second appel n’eut pour résultat que d’effaroucher les poules qui s’égaillèrent en gloussant et en battant de l’aile.
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
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).