effrontée
\e.fʁɔ̃.te\
The verdict
“effrontée” is uncommon French (frequency #63,708 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,708
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage sans honte de rien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effrontee · effrontée · French
effrontée · rank #63,708 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,708
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH efforçait
Nearest frequency peer: efforçait (-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 « effrontée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- EEE
EEE
36,296 corpus weight
- effectuez
effectuez
36,295 corpus weight
- efforçait
efforçait
36,294 corpus weight
- effrontée
effrontée
36,293 corpus weight
- egal
egal
36,292 corpus weight
- Elke
Elke
36,290 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « effrontée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | effrontée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.fʁɔ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « effrontée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
effrontée is uncommon French at frequency #63,708 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.fʁɔ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personnage sans honte de rien.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for effrontée in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is effrontée, spelled E-F-F-R-O-N-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Personnage sans honte de rien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how effrontée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une jeune fille qui court après un garçon, c'est une effrontée, et je n'épouserais pas une effrontée.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).