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say it: i-FEKTS
effects is a noun meaning "property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business". It is pronounced /ɪˈfɛkts/ — i-FEKTS. It carries one recorded sense.
property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business
“she left some of her personal effects in the house”
“I watched over their effects until they returned”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for effects come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.