efficacité
French, noun/e.fi.ka.si.te/
efficacité is spelled E-F-F-I-C-A-C-I-T-É (10 letters) and appears 30 times per million words in written French, the 2,714th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Efficacité is a French feminine noun meaning “efficiency, effectiveness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Caractère de ce qui est efficace”.
What does efficacité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineefficiency, effectiveness
- 2
feminineefficacy
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Caractère de ce qui est efficace. 2. Capacité de produire un résultat. 3. Caractère d’une personne efficace, d’un comportement, d’une action efficace.
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 efficacité
- efficacités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce efficacité?
- /e.fi.ka.si.te/
- \e.fi.ka.si.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to efficacité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is efficacité in French?
efficacité appears 30 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).