efforts
\e.fɔʁ\
The verdict
“efforts” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,700. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,700
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de effort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-efforts · efforts · French
efforts · rank #1,700 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,700
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH domicile
Nearest frequency peer: domicile (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « efforts »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- collège
collège
98,304 corpus weight
- construire
construire
98,303 corpus weight
- domicile
domicile
98,302 corpus weight
- efforts
efforts
98,301 corpus weight
- employés
employés
98,300 corpus weight
- examen
examen
98,299 corpus weight
What this shows « efforts » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | efforts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.fɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « efforts »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around efforts (IPA \e.fɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,700 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de effort.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for efforts, with forms such as "efforrts", "efforst", and "effortss". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "effets", "effort", "efforce", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is efforts, spelled E-F-F-O-R-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de effort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how efforts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les bêtes si méfiantes qui s’abattaient à la croûle sur les fagnes pour en extraire les vers, ne prenaient point garde aux filets tendus à plat sur le sol; elles s’y empêtraient et tous leurs efforts étaient vains. Elles ne pouvaient s’en dépêtrer ou arracher le bâtonnet qui les fixe.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efforrts
- efforst
- effortss
- effortts
- effotrs
- effrots
- efofrts
- eforts
- feforts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of efforts - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).