effraie
\ɛf.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“effraie” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,251. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,251
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rapace nocturne du genre Tyto.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effraie · effraie · French
effraie · rank #22,251 · 7 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,251
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effacement
Nearest frequency peer: effacement (-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 « effraie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dévier
dévier
77,753 corpus weight
- dévolu
dévolu
77,752 corpus weight
- effacement
effacement
77,751 corpus weight
- effraie
effraie
77,750 corpus weight
- effrayante
effrayante
77,749 corpus weight
- encadrés
encadrés
77,748 corpus weight
What this shows « effraie » 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 | effraie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛf.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « effraie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around effraie (IPA \ɛf.ʁɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,251 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Rapace nocturne du genre Tyto.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for effraie, with forms such as "effarie", "effraei", and "effriae". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "effroi", "effrayé", "effréné", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is effraie, spelled E-F-F-R-A-I-E.
Definition
- 1Rapace nocturne du genre Tyto.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how effraie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’effraie des clochers (Tyto alba), aussi nommée « dame blanche », ne fait guère de mal qu’aux petits rongeurs.
À vingt, à vingt-cinq ans comme à soixante aujourd’hui, elle avait déjà cette tête d’effraie, ces lunettes, et cette allure sautillante de pintade qui vient de prendre un coup de bâton.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- effarie
- effraei
- effriae
- effrraie
- efraie
- efrfaie
- fefraie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of effraie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).