effrayante
\e.fʁɛ.jɑ̃t\
The verdict
“effrayante” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,252. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,252
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de effrayant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effrayante · effrayante · French
effrayante · rank #22,252 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,252
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effraie
Nearest frequency peer: effraie (-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 « effrayante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- encens
encens
77,747 corpus weight
What this shows « effrayante » 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 | effrayante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.fʁɛ.jɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #22,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « effrayante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around effrayante (IPA \e.fʁɛ.jɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,252 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de effrayant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for effrayante, with forms such as "effaryante", "effraaynte", and "effrayanet". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "effrayants", "effrayantes", "effrayant", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is effrayante, spelled E-F-F-R-A-Y-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de effrayant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how effrayante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la fin de la huitième lune, une chaleur lourde s’étendit sur la vieille cité et ramena avec elle une effrayante recrudescence de puanteur ambiante.
À Paris, surtout depuis 1830, personne n’arrive sans pousser, quibuscumque viis, et très fort, une masse effrayante de concurrents ; il faut alors beaucoup trop de force dans les reins, et les deux amis avaient cette gravelle au cœur, qui gêne tous les mouvements ambitieux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- effaryante
- effraaynte
- effrayanet
- effrayannte
- effrayantte
- effrayatne
- effraynate
- effrayyante
- effrrayante
- effryaante
- efrayante
- efrfayante
- fefrayante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of effrayante - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).