impede
[ɪmˈpiːd]
The verdict
“impede” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - behindern, erschweren
Corpus desk
Index DE-impede · impede · German
impede · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impede |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɪmˈpiːd] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „impede“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
impede is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ɪmˈpiːd]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "behindern, erschweren".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for impede, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is impede, spelled I-M-P-E-D-E.
Definition
- 1behindern, erschweren
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impede appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Of course, this statement is slightly disingenuous, since the worst effects occur when soot particles have opportunity to agglomerate, something which oils are expressly formulated to impede: in the converse sense, this property is described as 'dispersancy'."
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.