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employer/employez/employé/employée/employées/employés

"employer" (#8,700 written frequency) beats "employez" (#48,490) in this 6-word /\ɑ̃.plwa.je\/ cluster. Size rank #20 of 9,139 French groups.

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Frequency splits the cluster

These 6 spellings keep the same /\ɑ̃.plwa.je\/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "employer" leads at #8,700, with "employez" trailing at #48,490.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Single-letter fork: "employer" keeps r, "employez" writes z at letter 8.
  • Shared stem "employ" then splits - "employer" (8 letters) vs "employé" (7).
  • Shared stem "employ" then splits - "employer" (8 letters) vs "employée" (8).
  • Shared stem "employ" then splits - "employer" (8 letters) vs "employées" (9).
  • Shared stem "employ" then splits - "employer" (8 letters) vs "employés" (8).
  • Shared stem "employ" then splits - "employez" (8 letters) vs "employé" (7).
  • Shared stem "employ" then splits - "employez" (8 letters) vs "employée" (8).
  • Shared stem "employ" then splits - "employez" (8 letters) vs "employées" (9).
  • Shared stem "employ" then splits - "employez" (8 letters) vs "employés" (8).
  • Shared stem "employé" then splits - "employé" (7 letters) vs "employée" (8).
  • Shared stem "employé" then splits - "employé" (7 letters) vs "employées" (9).
  • Shared stem "employé" then splits - "employé" (7 letters) vs "employés" (8).
  • Shared stem "employée" then splits - "employée" (8 letters) vs "employées" (9).
  • Single-letter fork: "employée" keeps e, "employés" writes s at letter 8.
  • Shared stem "employé" then splits - "employées" (9 letters) vs "employés" (8).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across employer, employez, employé, employée, employées, employés: elmopy. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • employer

    8 letters · 4 vowels · shape VCCCVVVC

    Inventory elmopry · private r

  • employez

    8 letters · 4 vowels · shape VCCCVVVC

    Inventory elmopyz · private z

  • employé

    7 letters · 4 vowels · shape VCCCVVV

    Inventory elmopyé · private é

  • employée

    8 letters · 5 vowels · shape VCCCVVVV

    Inventory elmopyé · private é

  • employées

    9 letters · 5 vowels · shape VCCCVVVVC

    Inventory elmopsyé · private sé

  • employés

    8 letters · 4 vowels · shape VCCCVVVC

    Inventory elmopsyé · private sé

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "employer" when you mean: Utiliser ; user ; se servir de.
  • Write "employez" when you mean: Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de employer.
  • Write "employé" when you mean: Qui est en usage, utilisé.
  • Write "employée" when you mean: Celle qui est rétribuée pour produire un travail au sein d’une entreprise ou d’une administration.
  • Write "employées" when you mean: Féminin pluriel de employé.
  • Write "employés" when you mean: Masculin pluriel de employé.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • employer ← emlpoyer · emmployer · emplloyer · emploeyr · employerr · employre
  • employez ← emlpoyez · emmployez · emplloyez · emploeyz · employezz · employyez

Each spelling

employer

verb · /\ɑ̃.plwa.je\/ · #8,700 frequency

Utiliser ; user ; se servir de.

employez

verb · /\ɑ̃.plwa.je\/ · #48,490 frequency

Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de employer.

employé

/\ɑ̃.plwa.je\/

Qui est en usage, utilisé.

employée

/\ɑ̃.plwa.je\/

Celle qui est rétribuée pour produire un travail au sein d’une entreprise ou d’une administration.

employées

/\ɑ̃.plwa.je\/

Féminin pluriel de employé.

employés

/\ɑ̃.plwa.je\/

Masculin pluriel de employé.

Nearby French homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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