employait

\ɑ̃.plwa.jɛ\

/\ɑ̃.plwa.jɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“employait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,639. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,639
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de employer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-employait · employait · French

employait · rank #25,639 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #25,639
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH emparent

Nearest frequency peer: emparent (-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 « employait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « employait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

employait vs employant
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for employait
PropertyValue
Headwordemployait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɑ̃.plwa.jɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#25,639
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « employait »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).employaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « emparent » (#25,638), « empoisonner » (#25,640), « embrayage » (#25,637). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « employait » est au #25,639. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around employait (IPA \ɑ̃.plwa.jɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,639 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de employer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for employait, with forms such as "emlpoyait", "emmployait", and "emplloyait". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "employant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is employait, spelled E-M-P-L-O-Y-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de employer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how employait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il ne fallait pas moins que les jus fussent complètement débarrassés de carbonate, avant de les livrer aux opérations de la sucrerie. Pour cela, on employait une chaudière de 12 hectolitres environ, et, une fois remplie de jus à débaryter, on y ajoutait, à frois, 2 à 3 litres d’une dissolution de sulfate d’alumine.
  2. Mais en même temps, pour mener l’attaque contre la théocratie papale, Sarpi s’employait avec Micanzio à la traduction de l’œuvre d’Edwin Sandys, Europae speculum or views or survey of the state of religion, qui véhiculait les idées anti-puritaines du traité de Hooker, The Law of ecclesiastical polity.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emlpoyait
  • emmployait
  • emplloyait
  • emploayit
  • employaitt
  • employati
  • employiat
  • employyait
  • emplyoait
  • empolyait
  • empployait
  • epmloyait
  • meployait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of employait - 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.

emlpoyait2emmployait1emplloyait1emploayit2employaitt1employati2employiat2employyait1
Edit distance from "employait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "employait"?
"employait" is spelled E-M-P-L-O-Y-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.plwa.jɛ\.
What does "employait" mean?
As a verb, "employait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de employer.
What words are commonly confused with "employait"?
"employait" is commonly confused with "employant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "employait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "employait" is \ɑ̃.plwa.jɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "employait" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "employait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

embrayage#25,637désordres#25,633dépourvus#25,630délibérée#25,627

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

fleuriste13 variantsfortifiée13 variantsframboise13 variantsHastings13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list