effet cocktail party
\ɛ.fɛ kok.tɛl paʁ.ti\
The verdict
“effet cocktail party” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Aptitude à entendre une conversation précise au milieu d'autres dont on peut faire une totale abstraction.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effet cocktail party |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.fɛ kok.tɛl paʁ.ti\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “effet cocktail party” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for effet cocktail party is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.fɛ kok.tɛl paʁ.ti\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Aptitude à entendre une conversation précise au milieu d'autres dont on peut faire une totale abstraction.".
No misspelling variants are generated for effet cocktail party in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 cocktail party, spelled E-F-F-E-T- -C-O-C-K-T-A-I-L- -P-A-R-T-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aptitude à entendre une conversation précise au milieu d'autres dont on peut faire une totale abstraction.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is E-F-F-E-T- -C-O-C-K-T-A-I-L- -P-A-R-T-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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