efforcée

\e.fɔʁ.se\

/\e.fɔʁ.se\/ verb

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The verdict

“efforcée” is uncommon French (frequency #78,377 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,377
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de efforcer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-efforcee · efforcée · French

efforcée · rank #78,377 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,377
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH ecology

Nearest frequency peer: ecology (-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 « efforcée »

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 « efforcée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for efforcée
PropertyValue
Headwordefforcée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.fɔʁ.se\
Letters8
Frequency rank#78,377
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « efforcée » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.efforcéetombe 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: « ecology » (#78,376), « détricoter » (#78,374), « détartrage » (#78,373). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « efforcée » est au #78,377. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

efforcée is uncommon French at frequency #78,377 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.fɔʁ.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de efforcer.".

Zero misspellings are on record for efforcée in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is efforcée, spelled E-F-F-O-R-C-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé féminin singulier de efforcer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Fidèle du prêtre, elle s’était efforcée, au cours de conversations particulières, de démontrer l’erreur de ce mini-schisme.

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 "efforcée"?
"efforcée" is spelled E-F-F-O-R-C-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.fɔʁ.se\.
What does "efforcée" mean?
As a verb, "efforcée" means: Participe passé féminin singulier de efforcer.
How do you pronounce "efforcée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "efforcée" is \e.fɔʁ.se\. 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 "efforcée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

encartés#78,386déprimes#78,367enterrez#78,392déféquer#78,360

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list