effroyable
\ef.ʁwa.jabl\
The verdict
“effroyable” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,531. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,531
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui cause de l’effroi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-effroyable · effroyable · French
effroyable · rank #23,531 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #23,531
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH early
Nearest frequency peer: early (-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 « effroyable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dérober
dérober
76,474 corpus weight
- déçoit
déçoit
76,472 corpus weight
- early
early
76,471 corpus weight
- effroyable
effroyable
76,470 corpus weight
- empruntée
empruntée
76,468 corpus weight
- England
England
76,466 corpus weight
What this shows « effroyable » 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 | effroyable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ef.ʁwa.jabl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #23,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « effroyable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around effroyable (IPA \ef.ʁwa.jabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,531 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for effroyable, with forms such as "efforyable", "effroayble", and "effroyabble". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "effroyables", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is effroyable, spelled E-F-F-R-O-Y-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui cause de l’effroi.
- 2Qui est excessif, étonnant ou prodigieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how effroyable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un fracas effroyable, accompagné d'une éruption de poussière et de fumée, annonça qu'une des autres façades venait de s’effondrer, […].
La mer déjà très grosse, formée de houles aux directions différentes, devient effroyable ; c’est un monstrueux clapotis, sans direction déterminée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efforyable
- effroayble
- effroyabble
- effroyabel
- effroyablle
- effroyalbe
- effroybale
- effroyyable
- effrroyable
- effryoable
- efrfoyable
- efroyable
- fefroyable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of effroyable - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).