impeachment
/ɪmˈpiːt͡ʃ.mənt/
"impeachment" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“impeachment” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,174. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,174
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something.
Corpus desk
Index EN-impeachment · impeachment · English
impeachment · rank #13,174 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,174
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH humility
Nearest frequency peer: humility (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “impeachment”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- hum
hum
86,829 corpus weight
- humility
humility
86,828 corpus weight
- impeachment
impeachment
86,827 corpus weight
- inherently
inherently
86,826 corpus weight
- insults
insults
86,825 corpus weight
- inventor
inventor
86,824 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “impeachment” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impeachment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪmˈpiːt͡ʃ.mənt/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #13,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “impeachment” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around impeachment (IPA /ɪmˈpiːt͡ʃ.mənt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,174 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for impeachment, with forms such as "imepachment", "immpeachment", and "impaechment". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English empechement (“hindrance, impediment, obstacle, obstruction; legal accusation or charge; act of calling into question or discrediting; challenge to a claim or right”), and thence either: * from Middle English empechen, empeschen, empesche… The correct English form is impeachment, spelled I-M-P-E-A-C-H-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something.
- 2The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something.
- 3The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something.
- 4The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something.
- 5The state of being impeached.
- 6Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impeachment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] Nevertheleſs there was no ſo much care, labour, ſtudy, and diligence employed on our Party, by them, our ſelf, and other, for attaining your Grace's Purpoſe, but there was as much done by others for the lett and empeachment of the ſame; […]
The leaſt may thinke upon Fabius Maximus, who with an honourable obſtinacy purſued the courſe of his owne platforme, notwithſtanding a thouſand empeachments; and although ſlowly, with much murmuring, yet effectually with more reputation, atchieved his politicke purpoſe: [...]
Etymology
From Middle English empechement (“hindrance, impediment, obstacle, obstruction; legal accusation or charge; act of calling into question or discrediting; challenge to a claim or right”), and thence either: * from Middle English empechen, empeschen, empesche, enpechen, impechen (“to cause to get stuck; of a ship: to run aground; to block, obstruct; to hinder, impede; to prevent; to interfere with, harm; to criticize, disparage; to bring charges against; to formally accuse of treason or another high crime”) (from Anglo-Norman empecher, Old French empechier, empeechier) + -ment (suffix forming action nouns, concrete nouns, and nouns indicating a result or a condition or state); or * from Old French empechement, empeechement, empeschement (“obstacle”) (modern French empêchement (“impediment, obstacle”)), from empeechier (“to fetter; to hinder”), empescher (“to inhibit, prevent”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns from verbs). The English word is analysable as impeach + -ment. Old French empechier, empeechier and empescher (compare modern French empêcher) are derived from Late Latin impedicāre (“to catch; to entangle”), present active infinitive of Latin impedicō (“to entangle; to fetter”), from im- (variant of in-) + pedica (“fetter, shackle; snare, trap”) (from pēs (“foot”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”)) + -ō. In senses 1.2 (“accusation that a person has committed a crime”) and 1.3 (“act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct”), the word has been used in place of Latin impetere, the present active infinitive of impetō (“to assail, attack, rush upon”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imepachment
- immpeachment
- impaechment
- impeacchment
- impeachemnt
- impeachhment
- impeachmennt
- impeachmentt
- impeachmetn
- impeachmment
- impeachmnet
- impeacmhent
- impeahcment
- impecahment
- imppeachment
- ipmeachment
- mipeachment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impeachment - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.