efforça

\e.fɔʁ.sa\

/\e.fɔʁ.sa\/ verb

The verdict

“efforça” is uncommon French (frequency #69,039 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#69,039
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 efforcer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-efforca · efforça · French

efforça · rank #69,039 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #69,039
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH EDC

Nearest frequency peer: EDC (-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 « efforça »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « efforça » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for efforça
PropertyValue
Headwordefforça
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.fɔʁ.sa\
Letters7
Frequency rank#69,039
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « efforça » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.efforçatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « EDC » (#69,038), « effriter » (#69,040), « elegant » (#69,043). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « efforça » est au #69,039. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

efforça is uncommon French at frequency #69,039 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.fɔʁ.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de efforcer.".

efforça has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is efforça, spelled E-F-F-O-R-Ç-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de efforcer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how efforça appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Parmi tant de réformes urgentes qui le sollicitaient, Stanislavski s’efforça d’abord de rééduquer l’acteur, de le décabotiniser.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "efforça"?
"efforça" is spelled E-F-F-O-R-Ç-A. The IPA pronunciation is \e.fɔʁ.sa\.
What does "efforça" mean?
As a verb, "efforça" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de efforcer.
How do you pronounce "efforça"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "efforça" is \e.fɔʁ.sa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "efforça" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "efforça", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list