effilée
\e.fi.le\
The verdict
“effilée” is uncommon French (frequency #69,800 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,800
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de effilé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effilee · effilée · French
effilée · rank #69,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,800
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effectuons
Nearest frequency peer: effectuons (-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 « effilée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ebitda
Ebitda
30,206 corpus weight
- effectuons
effectuons
30,202 corpus weight
- effilée
effilée
30,201 corpus weight
- eines
eines
30,199 corpus weight
- embauchant
embauchant
30,198 corpus weight
- emmènerai
emmènerai
30,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « effilée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effilée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.fi.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « effilée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
effilée is uncommon French at frequency #69,800 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.fi.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de effilé.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for effilée, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is effilée, spelled E-F-F-I-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de effilé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how effilée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Xavier Yaris (X Y pour ses amis de plus en plus rares) saisit son ouvre-lettres, petite épée de style castillan, pommeau finement ciselé et lame effilée.
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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