effrayer
French, verb/e.fʁɛ.je/
effrayer is spelled E-F-F-R-A-Y-E-R (8 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written French, the 18,149th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Effrayer is a French verb meaning “to frighten, to scare, to affray” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Remplir de frayeur”.
What does effrayer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to frighten, to scare, to affray
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Remplir de frayeur.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of effrayer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- effrayant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- effrayé participle past
- effraye first-person indicative present
- effraie first-person indicative present
- effrayes indicative present second-person
- effraies indicative present second-person
- effrayons first-person indicative plural
- effrayez indicative plural present
- effrayent indicative plural present
- effraient indicative plural present
- effrayais first-person imperfect indicative
- effrayait imperfect indicative singular
- effrayions first-person imperfect indicative
- effrayiez imperfect indicative plural
- effrayaient imperfect indicative plural
- effrayai first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce effrayer?
- /e.fʁɛ.je/
- /e.fʁe.je/
- \e.fʁɛ.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to effrayer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is effrayer in French?
effrayer appears 2.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).