effrayait
\e.fʁɛ.jɛ\
The verdict
“effrayait” is uncommon French (frequency #61,490 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,490
- 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 effrayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effrayait · effrayait · French
effrayait · rank #61,490 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,490
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effondrées
Nearest frequency peer: effondrées (-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 « effrayait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dévaler
dévaler
38,515 corpus weight
- Edmundston
Edmundston
38,514 corpus weight
- effectueront
effectueront
38,513 corpus weight
- effondrées
effondrées
38,512 corpus weight
- effrayait
effrayait
38,511 corpus weight
- elementary
elementary
38,509 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « effrayait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effrayait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.fʁɛ.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « effrayait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
effrayait is uncommon French at frequency #61,490 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.fʁɛ.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de effrayer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for effrayait, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is effrayait, spelled E-F-F-R-A-Y-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de effrayer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how effrayait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous avez raison, dit Mme Marneffe que cette crise effrayait et qui ne se souvenait plus d’avoir émis cet apophtegme.
Ahmed Abdou s’effrayait aussitôt, et craignait que la graine dure et traîtresse, cachée sous les fibres, ne blessât la fillette.
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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