effondrements
\e.fɔ̃.dʁə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“effondrements” is uncommon French (frequency #59,979 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,979
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de effondrement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effondrements · effondrements · French
effondrements · rank #59,979 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,979
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effronté
Nearest frequency peer: effronté (+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 « effondrements »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- désinvestis…
désinvestissement
40,028 corpus weight
- détraqués
détraqués
40,027 corpus weight
- détroits
détroits
40,026 corpus weight
- effondremen…
effondrements
40,022 corpus weight
- effronté
effronté
40,021 corpus weight
- emballent
emballent
40,019 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « effondrements » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effondrements |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.fɔ̃.dʁə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #59,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « effondrements » en français
Rare enough to double-check
effondrements is uncommon French at frequency #59,979 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.fɔ̃.dʁə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de effondrement.".
No misspelling variants are generated for effondrements in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is effondrements, spelled E-F-F-O-N-D-R-E-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de effondrement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how effondrements appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En l’espèce, il s’agissait d’un très vieil immeuble en mauvais état dans lequel le contribuable avait effectué d’importants travaux de rénovation et de restauration pour éviter les effondrements.
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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