eaux usées
\o y.ze\
The verdict
“eaux usées” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Eaux ayant été utilisées et souillées par des activités humaines (domestiques, industrielles, agricoles, etc.), et qui doivent être collectées et traitées avant leur rejet dans le milieu naturel ou...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eaux usées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o y.ze\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eaux usées” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for eaux usées is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o y.ze\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Eaux ayant été utilisées et souillées par des activités humaines (domestiques, industrielles, agricoles, etc.), et qui doivent être collectées et traitées avant leur rejet dans le milieu naturel ou...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for eaux usées, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is eaux usées, spelled E-A-U-X- -U-S-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Eaux ayant été utilisées et souillées par des activités humaines (domestiques, industrielles, agricoles, etc.), et qui doivent être collectées et traitées avant leur rejet dans le milieu naturel ou leur réutilisation.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “eaux usées”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-A-U-X- -U-S-É-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \o y.ze\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.