accusaient

\a.ky.zɛ\

/\a.ky.zɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“accusaient” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,140. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,140
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe accuser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-accusaient · accusaient · French

accusaient · rank #42,140 · 12 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,140
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH accrochant

Nearest frequency peer: accrochant (-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 « accusaient »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « accusaient » 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).

accusaient vs accusent
80% similar
accusaient vs accusant
80% similar
accusaient vs accusait
80% similar

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

Key facts for accusaient
PropertyValue
Headwordaccusaient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.ky.zɛ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#42,140
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « accusaient »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).accusaientse 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 « accrochant » (#42,139), « achetaient » (#42,141), « accepterais » (#42,138). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « accusaient » est au #42,140. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around accusaient (IPA \a.ky.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,140 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe accuser.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for accusaient, with forms such as "accsuaient", "accuasient", and "accusaeint". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "accusent", "accusant", "accusait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is accusaient, spelled A-C-C-U-S-A-I-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe accuser.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Les faîteaux, sains et entiers, n’accusaient d’ailleurs aucune violence.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • accsuaient
  • accuasient
  • accusaeint
  • accusaiennt
  • accusaientt
  • accusaietn
  • accusainet
  • accusiaent
  • accussaient
  • acucsaient
  • acusaient
  • cacusaient

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of accusaient - 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.

accsuaient2accuasient2accusaeint2accusaiennt1accusaientt1accusaietn2accusainet2accusiaent2
Edit distance from "accusaient"

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 "accusaient"?
"accusaient" is spelled A-C-C-U-S-A-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ky.zɛ\.
What does "accusaient" mean?
As a verb, "accusaient" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe accuser.
What words are commonly confused with "accusaient"?
"accusaient" is commonly confused with "accusent", "accusant", "accusait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "accusaient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "accusaient" is \a.ky.zɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "accusaient" come from?
"accusaient" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "accusaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list