empêchées
\ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃe\
The verdict
“empêchées” is uncommon French (frequency #78,385 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,385
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin pluriel de empêcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empechees · empêchées · French
empêchées · rank #78,385 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,385
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empêchèrent
Nearest frequency peer: empêchèrent (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « empêchées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- empoigner
empoigner
21,619 corpus weight
- empêchèrent
empêchèrent
21,617 corpus weight
- empêchées
empêchées
21,616 corpus weight
- encartés
encartés
21,615 corpus weight
- enchantent
enchantent
21,614 corpus weight
- encoder
encoder
21,613 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « empêchées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empêchées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « empêchées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
empêchées is uncommon French at frequency #78,385 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin pluriel de empêcher.".
Zero misspellings are on record for empêchées in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 empêchées, spelled E-M-P-Ê-C-H-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin pluriel de empêcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how empêchées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un juge d’instruction va enquêter sur les pratiques de maintien de l’ordre de l’ex-préfet de police de Paris Didier Lallement, accusé par deux figures des « gilets jaunes » de les avoir mises en danger en les « nassant » et de les avoir empêchées de manifester fin 2019.
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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