impeachment
\im.pitʃ.mœnt\
The verdict
“impeachment” is uncommon French (frequency #81,246 among 142,603 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,246
- frequency rank, French
- 142,603
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Procédure de destitution, mise en accusation pouvant conduire à déposer quelqu’un de ses fonctions selon les procédures prévues dans certains pays.
| 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) |
Where “impeachment” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
impeachment is uncommon French at frequency #81,246 among 142,603 “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.
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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Using “impeachment”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-M-P-E-A-C-H-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \im.pitʃ.mœnt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.