empêches
\ɑ̃.pɛʃ\
The verdict
“empêches” is uncommon French (frequency #53,929 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,929
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de empêche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-empeches · empêches · French
empêches · rank #53,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,929
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empruntait
Nearest frequency peer: empruntait (-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 « empêches »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- embryonnair…
embryonnaires
46,075 corpus weight
- employa
employa
46,074 corpus weight
- empruntait
empruntait
46,073 corpus weight
- empêches
empêches
46,072 corpus weight
- enrobés
enrobés
46,071 corpus weight
- entry
entry
46,070 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « empêches » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empêches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.pɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « empêches » en français
Rare enough to double-check
empêches is uncommon French at frequency #53,929 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɑ̃.pɛʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de empêche.".
empêches doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is empêches, spelled E-M-P-Ê-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de empêche.
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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