effrayées
\e.fʁɛ.je\
The verdict
“effrayées” is uncommon French (frequency #82,904 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,904
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de effrayé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effrayees · effrayées · French
effrayées · rank #82,904 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,904
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effarouchée
Nearest frequency peer: effarouchée (-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 « effrayées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ecco
ecco
17,099 corpus weight
- effarouchée
effarouchée
17,098 corpus weight
- effrayées
effrayées
17,097 corpus weight
- effroyablem…
effroyablement
17,096 corpus weight
- Ehe
Ehe
17,095 corpus weight
- Emanuele
Emanuele
17,093 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « effrayées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effrayées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.fʁɛ.je\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « effrayées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
effrayées is uncommon French at frequency #82,904 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \e.fʁɛ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de effrayé.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for effrayées, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is effrayées, spelled E-F-F-R-A-Y-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de effrayé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how effrayées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Elles feront un procès-verbal, » ajoute Bossuet, en regardant, comme pour les pressentir, la mère Agnès et la sœur Sainte-Thérèse ? Péréfixe rappelant, à ce propos, les cris, les pleurs, les lamentations qu’on avait vus, à Port-Royal, le 26 août de l’année précédente, « Il faut les excuser, monseigneur (observa la mère Agnès), ce sont de pauvres filles…
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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