efs
\ɛf\
The verdict
“efs” is uncommon French (frequency #57,910 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,910
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ef.
Corpus desk
Index FR-efs · efs · French
efs · rank #57,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,910
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Edinburgh
Nearest frequency peer: Edinburgh (-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 « efs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ECR
ECR
42,094 corpus weight
- eder
eder
42,093 corpus weight
- Edinburgh
Edinburgh
42,092 corpus weight
- efs
efs
42,091 corpus weight
- Elina
Elina
42,089 corpus weight
- empirisme
empirisme
42,088 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « efs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | efs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #57,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « efs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
efs is uncommon French at frequency #57,910 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ef.".
Zero misspellings are on record for efs in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is efs, spelled E-F-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ef.
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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