effets
\e.fɛ\
The verdict
“effets” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,258. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,258
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de effet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effets · effets · French
effets · rank #1,258 · 7 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,258
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH divers
Nearest frequency peer: divers (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « effets »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dame
dame
98,746 corpus weight
- direct
direct
98,745 corpus weight
- divers
divers
98,744 corpus weight
- effets
effets
98,743 corpus weight
- envers
envers
98,742 corpus weight
- expression
expression
98,741 corpus weight
What this shows « effets » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.fɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « effets »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around effets (IPA \e.fɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,258 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de effet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for effets, with forms such as "efefts", "efets", and "effest". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "elfes", "enfers", "efforts", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is effets, spelled E-F-F-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de effet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how effets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Déjà, dans une des discussions relatives à la septicémie, auxquelles j’ai pris part, j’ai exprimé le vœu que l’on mît à profit cette possibilité de septicémiser les lapins à volonté pour expérimenter les moyens thérapeutiques que l’on pouvait opposer à la septicémie, soit en préparant l’organisme à lui résister par une médication ou un régime préalables,…
Mon cheval, sellé et bridé, ronge son frein et piaffe à ma porte; mes effets encombrent le patio, ficelés et prêts à être chargés.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efefts
- efets
- effest
- effetss
- effetts
- efftes
- fefets
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of effets - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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