amusait
\a.my.zɛ\
The verdict
“amusait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,097. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,097
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le contrôleur-conducteur ne l’amusait plus, il n’entendait plus la pluie métallique de la monnaie tombant de sa tirelire, il n’avait pas besoin de lui pour savoir où descendre… — (Elsa Triolet, Le ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-amusait · amusait · French
amusait · rank #23,097 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,097
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH als
Nearest frequency peer: als (-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 « amusait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- agilité
agilité
76,908 corpus weight
- Aline
Aline
76,907 corpus weight
- alliez
alliez
76,906 corpus weight
- als
als
76,905 corpus weight
- amusait
amusait
76,904 corpus weight
- AOC
AOC
76,902 corpus weight
What this shows « amusait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amusait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.my.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « amusait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around amusait (IPA \a.my.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,097 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for amusait, with forms such as "ammusait", "amsuait", and "amuasit". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "aurait", "amusant", "amusent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is amusait, spelled A-M-U-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Le contrôleur-conducteur ne l’amusait plus, il n’entendait plus la pluie métallique de la monnaie tombant de sa tirelire, il n’avait pas besoin de lui pour savoir où descendre… — (Elsa Triolet, Le Cheval blanc, 1943, troisième partie, chapitre VII)
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de amuser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how amusait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’était arrêté près d’un des buffets et s’amusait à compter le nombre de petits-fours qu’arrivait à ingurgiter le chef de l’administration communale quand son talkie grésilla.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ammusait
- amsuait
- amuasit
- amusaitt
- amusati
- amusiat
- amussait
- aumsait
- mausait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amusait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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 (9 here; floor ≥5).