empêchèrent
\ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɛʁ\
The verdict
“empêchèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #78,384 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,384
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de empêcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empecherent · empêchèrent · French
empêchèrent · rank #78,384 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,384
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empêchées
Nearest frequency peer: empêchées (+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 « empêchèrent »
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 « empêchèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empêchèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #78,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « empêchèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
empêchèrent is uncommon French at frequency #78,384 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɑ̃.pɛ.ʃɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de empêcher.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for empêchèrent, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is empêchèrent, spelled E-M-P-Ê-C-H-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de empêcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how empêchèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le gars soutenait un train un peu rapide pour moi, qui me ressentais encore de mon knock-out. Rue des Vertus, je décidai de fournir un effort sprinté pour le serrer d’un peu plus près. Deux andouilles de krouias m’en empêchèrent.
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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