efficiency
\ɪ.ˈfɪʃ.ən.si\
The verdict
“efficiency” is uncommon French (frequency #88,569 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,569
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Efficience.
Corpus desk
Index FR-efficiency · efficiency · French
efficiency · rank #88,569 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,569
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH détestons
Nearest frequency peer: détestons (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « efficiency »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- désincarnée
désincarnée
11,436 corpus weight
- désordonnées
désordonnées
11,435 corpus weight
- déterrés
déterrés
11,434 corpus weight
- détestons
détestons
11,433 corpus weight
- efficiency
efficiency
11,432 corpus weight
- EHF
EHF
11,431 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « efficiency » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | efficiency |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɪ.ˈfɪʃ.ən.si\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « efficiency » en français
Rare enough to double-check
efficiency is uncommon French at frequency #88,569 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɪ.ˈfɪʃ.ən.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Efficience.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for efficiency in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is efficiency, spelled E-F-F-I-C-I-E-N-C-Y.
Definition
- 1Efficience.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how efficiency appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comparing the function calls made to compute these results for different input values illustrates the difference in efficiency for these problems.
antenna efficiency - rendement
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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