eusse
\ys\
The verdict
“eusse” is uncommon French (frequency #53,944 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,944
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif du verbe avoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eusse · eusse · French
eusse · rank #53,944 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,944
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exhortant
Nearest frequency peer: exhortant (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « eusse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- essoufflée
essoufflée
46,062 corpus weight
- eusse
eusse
46,057 corpus weight
- exhortant
exhortant
46,056 corpus weight
- explorés
explorés
46,055 corpus weight
- extenso
extenso
46,054 corpus weight
- faillir
faillir
46,052 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « eusse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eusse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « eusse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
eusse is uncommon French at frequency #53,944 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif du verbe avoir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for eusse, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is eusse, spelled E-U-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif du verbe avoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how eusse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n’était pas que je n’eusse un grand goût pour l’algèbre en n’y considérant que la quantité abstraite ; mais appliquée à l’étendue, je voulais voir l’opération sur les lignes, autrement je n’y comprenais plus rien.
À la place de Joset, j’eusse offert de la porter dans le mauvais chemin, ou, si je n’eusse point osé la prendre dans mes bras, à tout le moins j’aurais resté derrière elle pour regarder tout mon soûl sa jolie jambe. — (George Sand, Les Maîtres sonneurs, George Bell and sons, 1908, page 61)
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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