empêchaient
\ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“empêchaient” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,314. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,314
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de empêcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empechaient · empêchaient · French
empêchaient · rank #42,314 · 17 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,314
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH emmena
Nearest frequency peer: emmena (-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 « empêchaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- edi
edi
57,690 corpus weight
- emmena
emmena
57,688 corpus weight
- empêchaient
empêchaient
57,687 corpus weight
- encercler
encercler
57,686 corpus weight
- encerclés
encerclés
57,685 corpus weight
- endure
endure
57,684 corpus weight
What this shows « empêchaient » 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 | empêchaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #42,314 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « empêchaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around empêchaient (IPA \ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,314 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de empêcher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for empêchaient, with forms such as "emmpêchaient", "empcêhaient", and "empechaient". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "empêchent", "empêchant", "empêchait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is empêchaient, spelled E-M-P-Ê-C-H-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de empêcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how empêchaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En fait, ce n’était pas vraiment un choix : ses yeux exorbités l’en empêchaient et il lui fallait les désexorbiter avant qu’une autre idée puisse émerger. — (site)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emmpêchaient
- empcêhaient
- empechaient
- emppêchaient
- empêcahient
- empêcchaient
- empêchaeint
- empêchaiennt
- empêchaientt
- empêchaietn
- empêchainet
- empêchhaient
- empêchiaent
- empêhcaient
- emêpchaient
- epmêchaient
- mepêchaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of empêchaient - 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 "empêchaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).