mésusage
French, noun/me.zy.zaʒ/
mésusage is spelled M-É-S-U-S-A-G-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 123,735th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mésusage is a French masculine noun meaning “misuse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mauvais usage d’une chose”.
What does mésusage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemisuse
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mauvais usage d’une chose. 2. Utilisation non conforme aux recommandations du résumé des caractéristiques du produit.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mésusage
- mésusages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mésusage?
- /me.zy.zaʒ/
- \me.zy.zaʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mésusage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mésusage in French?
mésusage appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).