abuses
\a.byz\
The verdict
“abuses” is uncommon French (frequency #51,846 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,846
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe abuser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abuses · abuses · French
abuses · rank #51,846 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,846
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acacias
Nearest frequency peer: acacias (+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 « abuses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abdique
abdique
48,160 corpus weight
- abed
abed
48,159 corpus weight
- abuses
abuses
48,155 corpus weight
- acacias
acacias
48,154 corpus weight
- acclimater
acclimater
48,153 corpus weight
- acculturati…
acculturation
48,151 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « abuses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abuses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.byz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abuses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abuses is uncommon French at frequency #51,846 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.byz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for abuses in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is abuses, spelled A-B-U-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe abuser.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe abuser.
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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