EFSA
\ɛf.sa\
The verdict
“EFSA” is uncommon French (frequency #54,544 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,544
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisme européen chargé de surveiller la sécurité alimentaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-efsa · EFSA · French
EFSA · rank #54,544 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,544
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH détrône
Nearest frequency peer: détrône (-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 « EFSA »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dénuées
dénuées
45,461 corpus weight
- désemparés
désemparés
45,459 corpus weight
- détrône
détrône
45,458 corpus weight
- EFSA
EFSA
45,457 corpus weight
- Eid
Eid
45,456 corpus weight
- embout
embout
45,451 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « EFSA » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | EFSA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛf.sa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « EFSA » en français
Rare enough to double-check
EFSA is uncommon French at frequency #54,544 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɛf.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Organisme européen chargé de surveiller la sécurité alimentaire.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for EFSA in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is EFSA, spelled E-F-S-A.
Definition
- 1Organisme européen chargé de surveiller la sécurité alimentaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how EFSA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Suite à la publication de ces rapports, la Commission européenne a demandé à l’EFSA de les analyser pour étudier l’approche scientifique utilisée […]
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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