amusait
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.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 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.
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"
Frequency rank: #23,097 in French
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Nearby French words
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