effondra
\e.fɔ̃.dʁa\
The verdict
“effondra” is uncommon French (frequency #52,654 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,654
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de effondrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effondra · effondra · French
effondra · rank #52,654 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,654
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effectuaient
Nearest frequency peer: effectuaient (-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 « effondra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dévonien
dévonien
47,350 corpus weight
- ECG
ECG
47,349 corpus weight
- effectuaient
effectuaient
47,348 corpus weight
- effondra
effondra
47,347 corpus weight
- effraient
effraient
47,346 corpus weight
- Elvire
Elvire
47,345 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « effondra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effondra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.fɔ̃.dʁa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,654 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « effondra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
effondra is uncommon French at frequency #52,654 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.fɔ̃.dʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de effondrer.".
effondra has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is effondra, spelled E-F-F-O-N-D-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de effondrer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how effondra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trois jours durant, trois nuits d’horreur, la mer franchit les digues, effondra la falaise, balayant tout dans son irrésistible furie, éventrant les champs saccagés, renversant les chaumières et laissant sur le rivage, lorsqu’elle s’apaisa, un monstre comme seul en peut produire l’Enfer.
Il s’effondra au cours d’un repas pris avec N’Diaye et Collura dans la maison sur pilotis.
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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