excusa
\ɛk.sky.za\
The verdict
“excusa” is uncommon French (frequency #85,709 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,709
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de excuser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excusa · excusa · French
excusa · rank #85,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,709
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exposons
Nearest frequency peer: exposons (+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 « excusa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- estafette
estafette
14,295 corpus weight
- estimateur
estimateur
14,294 corpus weight
- excusa
excusa
14,292 corpus weight
- exposons
exposons
14,291 corpus weight
- expé
expé
14,290 corpus weight
- F2P
F2P
14,289 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « excusa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excusa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛk.sky.za\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « excusa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
excusa is uncommon French at frequency #85,709 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛk.sky.za\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de excuser.".
excusa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is excusa, spelled E-X-C-U-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de excuser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how excusa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelques assistants s’en indignèrent et protestèrent avec véhémence, mais une sœur excusa le coupable en déclarant que le confessionnal était « débéni ».
– Désolée, s’excusa sincèrement Greta. Tous les vêtements ont été envoyés aux repriseuses.
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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