effrontée

\e.fʁɔ̃.te\

/\e.fʁɔ̃.te\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « effrontée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for effrontée
PropertyValue
Headwordeffrontée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.fʁɔ̃.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#63,708
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « effrontée » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).effrontéetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « efforçait » (#63,707), « egal » (#63,709), « effectuez » (#63,706). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « effrontée » est au #63,708. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Personnage sans honte de rien.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how effrontée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "effrontée"?
"effrontée" is spelled E-F-F-R-O-N-T-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.fʁɔ̃.te\.
What does "effrontée" mean?
As a noun, "effrontée" means: Personnage sans honte de rien.
How do you pronounce "effrontée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "effrontée" is \e.fʁɔ̃.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "effrontée" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "effrontée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list