employée
\ɑ̃.plwa.je\
The verdict
“employée” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,821. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,821
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui est rétribuée pour produire un travail au sein d’une entreprise ou d’une administration.
Corpus desk
Index FR-employee · employée · French
employée · rank #7,821 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,821
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH détour
Nearest frequency peer: détour (-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 « employée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- département…
départemental
92,183 corpus weight
- désirs
désirs
92,182 corpus weight
- détour
détour
92,181 corpus weight
- employée
employée
92,180 corpus weight
- enregistre
enregistre
92,179 corpus weight
- escalade
escalade
92,178 corpus weight
What this shows « employée » 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 | employée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.plwa.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « employée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around employée (IPA \ɑ̃.plwa.je\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,821 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for employée, with forms such as "emlpoyée", "emmployée", and "emplloyée". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "employés", "employer", "explorée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is employée, spelled E-M-P-L-O-Y-É-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui est rétribuée pour produire un travail au sein d’une entreprise ou d’une administration.
- 2Celle qui, dans une entreprise, ne fait pas partie des cadres et effectue un travail intellectuel.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emlpoyée
- emmployée
- emplloyée
- employee
- employeé
- employyée
- emploéye
- emplyoée
- empolyée
- empployée
- epmloyée
- meployée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of employée - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "employée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).