amusait

/\a.my.zɛ\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#23,097

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

amusait is aFrenchverb. It means: 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 ... Pronounced \a.my.zɛ\. Often confused with aurait and amusant.

Key facts for amusait
PropertyValue
Headwordamusait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.my.zɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#23,097
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of amusait in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for amusait is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.my.zɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,097 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for amusait, with forms such as "ammusait", "amsuait", and "amuasit". 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, "aurait", "amusant", "amusent", 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 amusait, spelled A-M-U-S-A-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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 Cheval blanc, 1943, troisième partie, chapitre VII)
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de amuser.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ammusait,amsuait,amuasit,amusaitt,amusati,amusiat,amussait,aumsait,mausait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amusait

Misspelling Variants of "amusait"

ammusait8amsuait7amuasit7amusaitt8amusati7amusiat7amussait8aumsait7
Misspelling Variants of "amusait"

Frequency rank: #23,097 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "amusait"?
"amusait" is spelled A-M-U-S-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.my.zɛ\.
What does "amusait" mean?
As a verb, "amusait" means: 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 ...
What words are commonly confused with "amusait"?
"amusait" is commonly confused with "aurait", "amusant", "amusent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "amusait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "amusait" 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 "amusait" come from?
"amusait" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.