impeach
/ɪmˈpit͡ʃ/verb
impeach is spelled I-M-P-E-A-C-H. The wrong spelling people search most is inpeach: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 45 of all searches for the word. Impeach is a verb meaning “To hinder, impede, or prevent”.
How many letters and syllables are in impeach?
| Letters | 7: I-M-P-E-A-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 25,367th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, inpeach, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell impeach?
Impeach is spelled I-M-P-E-A-C-H. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 45 of the searches for impeach in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is impeach?
Impeach appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce impeach?
- UK /ɪmˈpiːt͡ʃ/
- British /ɪmˈpɪjt͡ʃ/
- US /ɪmˈpit͡ʃ/
Impeach has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-impeach.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with impeach?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as impeach from its last stressed vowel (/itʃ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of impeach
- impeaches present, singular, he/she/it
- impeaching participle, present
- impeached participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does impeach mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To hinder, impede, or prevent.
- 2
To bring a legal proceeding against a public official.
President Clinton was impeached by the House in November 1998, but since the Senate acquitted him, he was not removed from office.
- 3
To charge with impropriety; to discredit; to call into question.
- 4
To demonstrate in court that a testimony under oath contradicts another testimony from the same person, usually one taken during deposition.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Impeach in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | empêcher, entraver , discréditer |
| German | verhindern , in Verruf bringen, schlechtmachen , anklagen , die Glaubwürdigkeit anzweifeln |
| Portuguese | impedir, impugnar, impichar |
| Spanish | someter a un proceso de destitución, hacer/presentar un impeachment contra , impugnar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does impeach come from?
From Middle English empechen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman empecher, from Old French empeechier (“to hinder”), from Latin impedicāre (“to fetter”). Cognate with French empêcher (“to prevent”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).