empêchant
\ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɑ̃\
The verdict
“empêchant” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,371. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,371
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de empêcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empechant · empêchant · French
empêchant · rank #13,371 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,371
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embarras
Nearest frequency peer: embarras (-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 « empêchant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- détacher
détacher
86,632 corpus weight
- embarras
embarras
86,631 corpus weight
- empêchant
empêchant
86,630 corpus weight
- encadrer
encadrer
86,629 corpus weight
- enfuit
enfuit
86,628 corpus weight
- ennuyer
ennuyer
86,627 corpus weight
What this shows « empêchant » 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 | empêchant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « empêchant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around empêchant (IPA \ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,371 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de empêcher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for empêchant, with forms such as "emmpêchant", "empcêhant", and "empechant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "empêchent", "empêcha", "empêchait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is empêchant, spelled E-M-P-Ê-C-H-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de empêcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how empêchant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais l’opérateur, lui, absorbe les rayons égarés — et ils sont nombreux — tout le jour et tous les jours ; il n’a encore que des moyens bien infidèles de protection : on lui a fait des lunettes, des gants, de grands tabliers où le plomb entre en plus ou moins grande quantité et arrête les rayons au passage, souvent, des fissures se produisent, ou, ces acc…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emmpêchant
- empcêhant
- empechant
- emppêchant
- empêcahnt
- empêcchant
- empêchannt
- empêchantt
- empêchatn
- empêchhant
- empêchnat
- empêhcant
- emêpchant
- epmêchant
- mepêchant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of empêchant - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).