fussent
\fys\
The verdict
“fussent” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,075. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,075
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait du subjonctif de être.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fussent · fussent · French
fussent · rank #27,075 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,075
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH funny
Nearest frequency peer: funny (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « fussent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Frederick
Frederick
72,929 corpus weight
- funny
funny
72,927 corpus weight
- fussent
fussent
72,926 corpus weight
- Gambie
Gambie
72,925 corpus weight
- gamines
gamines
72,924 corpus weight
- garagiste
garagiste
72,923 corpus weight
What this shows « fussent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fussent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fys\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fussent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around fussent (IPA \fys\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,075 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait du subjonctif de être.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for fussent, with forms such as "ffussent", "fsusent", and "fusesnt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "furent", "fuient", "fument", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fussent, spelled F-U-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait du subjonctif de être.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fussent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Harassé de fatigue, […] le marquis rentra dans son salon, désert pour lui, quoique ses trois autres enfants y fussent.
En tout cas, que ce fussent ces raisons ou bien que c’en fussent d’autres qu’elle ne connaissait pas, peu importait, le fait grave c’était que la demande en mariage de Sainte-Austreberthe eut été approuvée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffussent
- fsusent
- fusesnt
- fussennt
- fussentt
- fussetn
- fussnet
- ufssent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fussent - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).