accuses

\a.kyz\

/\a.kyz\/ verb

The verdict

“accuses” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,579. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#40,579
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-accuses · accuses · French

accuses · rank #40,579 · 8 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #40,579
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH acquittée

Nearest frequency peer: acquittée (+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 « accuses »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « accuses » 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).

accuses vs amuses
71% similar
accuses vs aucunes
71% similar
accuses vs acquises
75% similar

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

Key facts for accuses
PropertyValue
Headwordaccuses
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.kyz\
Letters7
Frequency rank#40,579
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « accuses »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.accusesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « acquittée » (#40,580), « actualisée » (#40,581), « aboutissants » (#40,576). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « accuses » est au #40,579. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around accuses (IPA \a.kyz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,579 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for accuses, with forms such as "accsues", "accuess", and "accusess". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "amuses", "aucunes", "acquises", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is accuses, spelled A-C-C-U-S-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe accuser.
  2. 2
    Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe accuser.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • accsues
  • accuess
  • accusess
  • accusse
  • accusses
  • acucses
  • acuses
  • cacuses

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

accsues2accuess2accusess1accusse2accusses1acucses2acuses1cacuses2
Edit distance from "accuses"

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 "accuses"?
"accuses" is spelled A-C-C-U-S-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.kyz\.
What does "accuses" mean?
As a verb, "accuses" means: Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe accuser.
What words are commonly confused with "accuses"?
"accuses" is commonly confused with "amuses", "aucunes", "acquises". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "accuses"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "accuses" is \a.kyz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "accuses" come from?
"accuses" 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 "accuses", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list