épaté

\e.pa.te\

/\e.pa.te\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows « épaté » 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).

épaté vs été
60% similar
épaté vs état
60% similar
épaté vs épée
40% similar

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

Key facts for épaté
PropertyValue
Headwordépaté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\e.pa.te\
Letters5
Frequency rank#42,132
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « épaté »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.épatése 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 « épargnées » (#42,131), « évaluant » (#42,133), « éoliens » (#42,130). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « épaté » est au #42,132. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Qui est aplati, écrasé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

epate2péaté2éapté2épatté1épaét2éppaté1éptaé2
Edit distance from "épaté"

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 "épaté"?
"épaté" is spelled É-P-A-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \e.pa.te\.
What does "épaté" mean?
As an adjective, "épaté" means: Qui est aplati, écrasé.
What words are commonly confused with "épaté"?
"épaté" is commonly confused with "été", "état", "épée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "épaté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "épaté" is \e.pa.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "épaté" come from?
"épaté" 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 "épaté", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list