impeachment
/ɪmˈpiːt͡ʃ.mənt/
"impeachment" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“impeachment” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #13,174 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #13,174
- frequency rank, English
- 11
- letters
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something.
| 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
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for impeachment is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪmˈpiːt͡ʃ.mənt/. Corpus data places it at rank #13,174 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “impeachment”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-M-P-E-A-C-H-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɪmˈpiːt͡ʃ.mənt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.