efforçait

\e.fɔʁ.sɛ\

/\e.fɔʁ.sɛ\/ verb

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for efforçait
PropertyValue
Headwordefforçait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.fɔʁ.sɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#63,707
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « efforçait » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.efforçaittombe 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: « effectuez » (#63,706), « effrontée » (#63,708), « EEE » (#63,705). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « efforçait » est au #63,707. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de efforcer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "efforçait"?
"efforçait" is spelled E-F-F-O-R-Ç-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \e.fɔʁ.sɛ\.
What does "efforçait" mean?
As a verb, "efforçait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de efforcer.
How do you pronounce "efforçait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "efforçait" is \e.fɔʁ.sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list