refusa
\ʁə.fy.za\
The verdict
“refusa” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,038. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,038
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de refuser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refusa · refusa · French
refusa · rank #18,038 · 8 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,038
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH redevances
Nearest frequency peer: redevances (-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 « refusa »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rattrapage
rattrapage
81,966 corpus weight
- recrutés
recrutés
81,965 corpus weight
- redevances
redevances
81,964 corpus weight
- refusa
refusa
81,963 corpus weight
- relax
relax
81,962 corpus weight
- relecture
relecture
81,961 corpus weight
What this shows « refusa » 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 | refusa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fy.za\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « refusa »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around refusa (IPA \ʁə.fy.za\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,038 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de refuser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for refusa, with forms such as "erfusa", "reffusa", and "refsua". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "reus", "revus", "Rufus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 refusa, spelled R-E-F-U-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de refuser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how refusa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le taureau ne refusa aucune tentative des hommes acharnés à le décocarder.
Lorsque Lisbeth vint tenir la maison, elle voulut aussitôt sous-louer le premier étage qui, disait-elle, payerait toute la location, le comte serait alors logé pour presque rien ; mais le vieux soldat s’y refusa.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erfusa
- reffusa
- refsua
- refuas
- refussa
- reufsa
- rfeusa
- rrefusa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of refusa - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).