efforçaient
\e.fɔʁ.sɛ\
The verdict
“efforçaient” is uncommon French (frequency #91,642 among 201,161 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,642
- frequency rank, French
- 201,161
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe efforcer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-efforcaient · efforçaient · French
efforçaient · rank #91,642 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,642
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 201,161
- PHOTO-FINISH effeuillage
Nearest frequency peer: effeuillage (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “efforçaient”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Eastbourne
Eastbourne
8,366 corpus weight
- effaceur
effaceur
8,362 corpus weight
- effeuillage
effeuillage
8,361 corpus weight
- efforçaient
efforçaient
8,359 corpus weight
- embarquaient
embarquaient
8,357 corpus weight
- emotional
emotional
8,353 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “efforçaient” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | efforçaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.fɔʁ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #91,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “efforçaient” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
efforçaient is uncommon French at frequency #91,642 among 201,161 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.fɔʁ.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe efforcer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for efforçaient in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is efforçaient, spelled E-F-F-O-R-Ç-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe efforcer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how efforçaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les jolis doigts de Clotilde continuaient de décrêpeler la tignasse ; ils s’efforçaient de hupper la fille, comme une petite alouette.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.