efforçait
\e.fɔʁ.sɛ\
The verdict
“efforçait” is uncommon French (frequency #63,707 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,707
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de efforcer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-efforcait · efforçait · French
efforçait · rank #63,707 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,707
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effectuez
Nearest frequency peer: effectuez (-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 « efforçait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déversés
déversés
36,298 corpus weight
- EEE
EEE
36,296 corpus weight
- effectuez
effectuez
36,295 corpus weight
- efforçait
efforçait
36,294 corpus weight
- effrontée
effrontée
36,293 corpus weight
- egal
egal
36,292 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « efforçait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | efforçait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.fɔʁ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « efforçait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
efforçait is uncommon French at frequency #63,707 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.fɔʁ.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de efforcer.".
efforçait doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is efforçait, spelled E-F-F-O-R-Ç-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de efforcer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how efforçait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Garantier contemplait, à travers la baie vitrée, les mouettes qui se débattaient au-dessus de la mer ; il s’efforçait d’oublier que c’étaient des choses vivantes et de n’y voir que des signes géométriques vivants, blancs et gris, assez comparables aux mobiles de Calder.
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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