épaté
\e.pa.te\
The verdict
“épaté” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,132. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,132
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est aplati, écrasé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epate · épaté · French
épaté · rank #42,132 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,132
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épargnées
Nearest frequency peer: épargnées (-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 « épaté »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- électrolyse
électrolyse
57,873 corpus weight
- énormité
énormité
57,872 corpus weight
- éoliens
éoliens
57,871 corpus weight
- épargnées
épargnées
57,870 corpus weight
- épaté
épaté
57,869 corpus weight
- évaluant
évaluant
57,868 corpus weight
What this shows « épaté » 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 | épaté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.pa.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #42,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « épaté »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around épaté (IPA \e.pa.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,132 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est aplati, écrasé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for épaté, with forms such as "epate", "péaté", and "éapté". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "été", "état", "épée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is épaté, spelled É-P-A-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est aplati, écrasé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how épaté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vais vous raconter la parabole du nez épaté : un homme naquit avec son beau nez épaté qui faisait la fierté de ses parents mais quand l’homme grandit, il voulut se débarrasser de ce cadeau qui relève de l’innéité.
Autour de la statue, en rangs concentriques où la musique militaire faisait comme une nodosité, les notables, vêtus de leur costume d’enterrement, les fesses épatées sur des chaises.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epate
- péaté
- éapté
- épatté
- épaét
- éppaté
- éptaé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of épaté - 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.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).