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efficience

French, noun\e.fi.sjɑ̃s\

efficience is spelled E-F-F-I-C-I-E-N-C-E (10 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,592nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Efficience is a French feminine noun meaning “effectiveness, efficiency” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Capacité d’une cause à produire un effet. Puissance d’un principe”.

What does efficience mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineeffectiveness, efficiency

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Capacité d’une cause à produire un effet. Puissance d’un principe. 2. Rapport entre les résultats obtenus et les ressources utilisées pour les atteindre. Caractère de ce qui est efficace (qui atteint un objectif) et qui produit le maximum de résultats avec le minimum d’efforts, de moyens.

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 efficience

  • efficiences plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce efficience?

  • \e.fi.sjɑ̃s\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to efficience

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is efficience in French?

efficience appears 1.4 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).

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