accuser
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,925
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
accuser is aFrenchverb. It means: Déférer à la justice quelqu’un comme coupable d’un délit, d’un crime. Pronounced \a.ky.ze\. It ranks #7,925 in French word frequency. Often confused with amuser and accuses.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accuser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ky.ze\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for accuser is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ky.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,925 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for accuser, with forms such as "accsuer", "accuesr", and "accuserr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "amuser", "accuses", "accusé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is accuser, spelled A-C-C-U-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Déférer à la justice quelqu’un comme coupable d’un délit, d’un crime.
- 2Poursuivre, en vertu d’un arrêt de la chambre des mises en accusation, une personne devant la Cour d’assises pour la faire déclarer coupable du crime qu’on lui impute et pour obtenir sa condamnation.
- 3Présenter quelqu’un comme coupable de quelque faute ou de quelque défaut.
- 4Indiquer ; présenter.
- 5Blâmer, reprendre.
- 6Servir de preuve, ou au moins d’indice contre quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 7Déclarer ses péchés au prêtre.
- 8Faire connaître ce que les règles veulent qu’on déclare.
- 9Dire ressentir telle douleur, etc.
- 10Marquer, donner avis qu’on l’a reçu.
- 11Indiquer, faire sentir certaines parties ou formes des corps recouvertes par quelque enveloppe.
- 12Se renforcer, s'aggraver, s'accentuer.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: accsuer,accuesr,accuserr,accusre,accusser,acucser,cacuser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for accuser
Misspelling Variants of "accuser"
Frequency rank: #7,925 in French
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