excuser

/\ɛk.sky.ze\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,979

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

13

similar word pairs

excuser is aFrenchverb. It means: Disculper dans une certaine mesure, présenter une personne ou une action comme moins coupable qu’elle ne semble. Pronounced \ɛk.sky.ze\. It ranks #5,979 in French word frequency. Often confused with excuses and exposer.

Key facts for excuser
PropertyValue
Headwordexcuser
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛk.sky.ze\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,979
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of excuser in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for excuser is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛk.sky.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,979 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for excuser, with forms such as "ecxuser", "exccuser", and "excsuer". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "excuses", "exposer", "excusez", 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 excuser, spelled E-X-C-U-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Disculper dans une certaine mesure, présenter une personne ou une action comme moins coupable qu’elle ne semble.
  2. 2
    Reconnaître une personne ou une action comme moins coupable qu’on ne l’avait cru, faire grâce.
  3. 3
    Autoriser quelqu’un à ne pas faire une chose, dispenser d'une obligation.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ecxuser,exccuser,excsuer,excuesr,excuserr,excusre,excusser,exucser,exxcuser,xecuser

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for excuser

Misspelling Variants of "excuser"

ecxuser7exccuser8excsuer7excuesr7excuserr8excusre7excusser8exucser7
Misspelling Variants of "excuser"

Frequency rank: #5,979 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "excuser"?
"excuser" is spelled E-X-C-U-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛk.sky.ze\.
What does "excuser" mean?
As a verb, "excuser" means: Disculper dans une certaine mesure, présenter une personne ou une action comme moins coupable qu’elle ne semble.
What words are commonly confused with "excuser"?
"excuser" is commonly confused with "excuses", "exposer", "excusez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "excuser"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "excuser" is \ɛk.sky.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "excuser" come from?
"excuser" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.