amusaient

\a.my.zɛ\

/\a.my.zɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“amusaient” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,327. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,327
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-amusaient · amusaient · French

amusaient · rank #48,327 · 12 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,327
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH amoureusement

Nearest frequency peer: amoureusement (-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 « amusaient »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « amusaient » 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).

amusaient vs amusant
78% similar
amusaient vs amusent
78% similar
amusaient vs amusait
78% similar

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

Key facts for amusaient
PropertyValue
Headwordamusaient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.my.zɛ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#48,327
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « amusaient »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.amusaientse 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 « amoureusement » (#48,326), « anaconda » (#48,328), « amortisseur » (#48,325). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « amusaient » est au #48,327. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around amusaient (IPA \a.my.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,327 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe amuser.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for amusaient, with forms such as "ammusaient", "amsuaient", and "amuasient". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "amusant", "amusent", "amusait", 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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is amusaient, spelled A-M-U-S-A-I-E-N-T.

Definition

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

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ammusaient
  • amsuaient
  • amuasient
  • amusaeint
  • amusaiennt
  • amusaientt
  • amusaietn
  • amusainet
  • amusiaent
  • amussaient
  • aumsaient
  • mausaient

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amusaient - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ammusaient1amsuaient2amuasient2amusaeint2amusaiennt1amusaientt1amusaietn2amusainet2
Edit distance from "amusaient"

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 "amusaient"?
"amusaient" is spelled A-M-U-S-A-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.my.zɛ\.
What does "amusaient" mean?
As a verb, "amusaient" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe amuser.
What words are commonly confused with "amusaient"?
"amusaient" is commonly confused with "amusant", "amusent", "amusait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "amusaient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "amusaient" is \a.my.zɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "amusaient" come from?
"amusaient" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 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