impeachment
\im.pitʃ.mœnt\
The verdict
“impeachment” is uncommon French (frequency #81,246 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,246
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Procédure de destitution, mise en accusation pouvant conduire à déposer quelqu’un de ses fonctions selon les procédures prévues dans certains pays.
Corpus desk
Index FR-impeachment · impeachment · French
impeachment · rank #81,246 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,246
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH Imola
Nearest frequency peer: Imola (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « impeachment »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- imminentes
imminentes
18,757 corpus weight
- Imola
Imola
18,756 corpus weight
- impeachment
impeachment
18,755 corpus weight
- impréparati…
impréparation
18,754 corpus weight
- impénitent
impénitent
18,753 corpus weight
- inarrêtable
inarrêtable
18,752 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « impeachment » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impeachment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \im.pitʃ.mœnt\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #81,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « impeachment » en français
Rare enough to double-check
impeachment is uncommon French at frequency #81,246 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \im.pitʃ.mœnt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Procédure de destitution, mise en accusation pouvant conduire à déposer quelqu’un de ses fonctions selon les procédures prévues dans certains pays.".
impeachment doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is impeachment, spelled I-M-P-E-A-C-H-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Procédure de destitution, mise en accusation pouvant conduire à déposer quelqu’un de ses fonctions selon les procédures prévues dans certains pays.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how impeachment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cependant, au Brésil, l’impeachment tient autant de l’irrationnel que du rationnel.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).