employé

\ɑ̃.plwa.je\

/\ɑ̃.plwa.je\/ adj

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The verdict

“employé” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,713. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,713
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est en usage, utilisé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-employe · employé · French

employé · rank #2,713 · 11 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,713
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH efficacité

Nearest frequency peer: efficacité (-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 « employé »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « employé » 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).

employé vs explose
57% similar
employé vs explore
57% similar
employé vs employés
88% similar

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

Key facts for employé
PropertyValue
Headwordemployé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɑ̃.plwa.je\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,713
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « employé »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).employése 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 « efficacité » (#2,712), « ennemis » (#2,714), « délai » (#2,711). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « employé » est au #2,713. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around employé (IPA \ɑ̃.plwa.je\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,713 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est en usage, utilisé.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for employé, with forms such as "emlpoyé", "emmployé", and "emplloyé". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "explose", "explore", "employés", 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is employé, spelled E-M-P-L-O-Y-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est en usage, utilisé.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emlpoyé
  • emmployé
  • emplloyé
  • employe
  • employyé
  • emploéy
  • emplyoé
  • empolyé
  • empployé
  • epmloyé
  • meployé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of employé - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

emlpoyé2emmployé1emplloyé1employe1employyé1emploéy2emplyoé2empolyé2
Edit distance from "employé"

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 "employé"?
"employé" is spelled E-M-P-L-O-Y-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑ̃.plwa.je\.
What does "employé" mean?
As an adjective, "employé" means: Qui est en usage, utilisé.
What words are commonly confused with "employé"?
"employé" is commonly confused with "explose", "explore", "employés". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "employé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "employé" is \ɑ̃.plwa.je\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "employé" come from?
"employé" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ennemis#2,714experts#2,715circuit#2,706mention#2,724

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

individu11 variantsappliquer11 variantsagricole11 variantsportent11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list