empêchent
\ɑ̃.pɛʃ\
The verdict
“empêchent” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,992. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,992
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de empêcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empechent · empêchent · French
empêchent · rank #9,992 · 15 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,992
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Elena
Nearest frequency peer: Elena (-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 « empêchent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- développeme…
développements
90,012 corpus weight
- effective
effective
90,011 corpus weight
- Elena
Elena
90,010 corpus weight
- empêchent
empêchent
90,009 corpus weight
- enceintes
enceintes
90,008 corpus weight
- engins
engins
90,007 corpus weight
What this shows « empêchent » 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 | empêchent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « empêchent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around empêchent (IPA \ɑ̃.pɛʃ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,992 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for empêchent, with forms such as "emmpêchent", "empcêhent", and "empechent". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "empêcher", "empêchera", "empêche", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is empêchent, spelled E-M-P-Ê-C-H-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de empêcher.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de empêcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how empêchent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’une manière générale, les femmes ménopausées sont les premières cibles de l’ostéoporose, en raison de la fin de la sécrétion osseuse, en raison de la fin de la sécrétion des œstrogènes, hormones qui empêchent la destruction osseuse par leur action frénatrice sur les ostéoclastes (ces cellules des os dont le rôle est à la fois de détruire l’os ancien et…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emmpêchent
- empcêhent
- empechent
- emppêchent
- empêcchent
- empêcehnt
- empêchennt
- empêchentt
- empêchetn
- empêchhent
- empêchnet
- empêhcent
- emêpchent
- epmêchent
- mepêchent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of empêchent - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).