effet
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#270
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
effet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui est produit par quelque cause. Pronounced \e.fɛ\. It ranks #270 in French word frequency. Often confused with eft and émet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.fɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for effet is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.fɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #270 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for effet, with forms such as "efeft", "efet", and "effett". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "eft", "émet", "elfe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is effet, spelled E-F-F-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui est produit par quelque cause.
- 2Sorte de rotation imprimée à l’objet que l’on lance (boule de pétanque, boule de quilles, …) ou que l’on frappe (ballon de football, balle de tennis, bille de billard, …) afin de modifier son mouvement ultérieur.
- 3Effort transmis par un mécanisme.
- 4Ce qui frappe, de ce qui attire ou captive les regards ou l’attention.
- 5Ce qui est destiné ou ce qui vise à produire de l’effet.
- 6Exécution d’une chose.
- 7Billet à ordre, lettre de change, papier de crédit.
- 8Les biens, les objets meubles, ou censés tels d’après la loi.
- 9Objets meubles qui sont à l’usage d’une personne, il s’agit presque exclusivement aujourd’hui du linge et des vêtements.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efeft,efet,effett,effte,fefet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for effet
Misspelling Variants of "effet"
Frequency rank: #270 in French
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Nearby French words
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