empêcha
\ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃa\
The verdict
“empêcha” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,520. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,520
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de empêcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empecha · empêcha · French
empêcha · rank #34,520 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,520
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empara
Nearest frequency peer: empara (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « empêcha »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- effrénée
effrénée
65,485 corpus weight
- embellissem…
embellissement
65,484 corpus weight
- empara
empara
65,482 corpus weight
- empêcha
empêcha
65,481 corpus weight
- encres
encres
65,480 corpus weight
- envahissante
envahissante
65,477 corpus weight
What this shows « empêcha » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empêcha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « empêcha »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around empêcha (IPA \ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,520 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de empêcher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for empêcha, with forms such as "emmpêcha", "empcêha", and "empecha". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "empêche", "empoche", "empêcher", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is empêcha, spelled E-M-P-Ê-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de empêcher.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emmpêcha
- empcêha
- empecha
- emppêcha
- empêcah
- empêccha
- empêchha
- empêhca
- emêpcha
- epmêcha
- mepêcha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of empêcha - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "empêcha", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).