amuser
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,824
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
amuser is aFrenchverb. It means: Divertir par des choses agréables. Pronounced \a.my.ze\. It ranks #4,824 in French word frequency. Often confused with auger and asser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amuser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.my.ze\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for amuser is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.my.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,824 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for amuser, with forms such as "ammuser", "amsuer", and "amuesr". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "auger", "asser", "auber", 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 amuser, spelled A-M-U-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Divertir par des choses agréables.
- 2Faire perdre le temps ; distraire.
- 3Repaître de vaines promesses, de fausses espérances.
- 4S’occuper par simple divertissement.
- 5Se moquer de quelqu’un.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ammuser,amsuer,amuesr,amuserr,amusre,amusser,aumser,mauser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amuser
Misspelling Variants of "amuser"
Frequency rank: #4,824 in French
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