effigies
\ɛ.fi.ʒi\
The verdict
“effigies” is uncommon French (frequency #55,239 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,239
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de effigie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effigies · effigies · French
effigies · rank #55,239 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,239
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH EEG
Nearest frequency peer: EEG (-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 « effigies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- EDT
EDT
44,764 corpus weight
- EEG
EEG
44,763 corpus weight
- effigies
effigies
44,762 corpus weight
- Eliott
Eliott
44,760 corpus weight
- emmenées
emmenées
44,759 corpus weight
- emparèrent
emparèrent
44,758 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « effigies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effigies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.fi.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « effigies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
effigies is uncommon French at frequency #55,239 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛ.fi.ʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de effigie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for effigies, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is effigies, spelled E-F-F-I-G-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de effigie.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).