refusait
\ʁə.fy.zɛ\
The verdict
“refusait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,851. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,851
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de refuser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refusait · refusait · French
refusait · rank #12,851 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,851
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH redevance
Nearest frequency peer: redevance (-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 « refusait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Rafael
Rafael
87,153 corpus weight
- Raoul
Raoul
87,152 corpus weight
- redevance
redevance
87,151 corpus weight
- refusait
refusait
87,150 corpus weight
- rencontrées
rencontrées
87,149 corpus weight
- res
res
87,148 corpus weight
What this shows « refusait » 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 | refusait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fy.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « refusait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around refusait (IPA \ʁə.fy.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,851 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de refuser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for refusait, with forms such as "erfusait", "reffusait", and "refsuait". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "refusent", "refusant", "reposait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is refusait, spelled R-E-F-U-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de refuser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how refusait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Paola, elle, refusait de grimper dans les govas, excepté dans celles de ses réguliers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erfusait
- reffusait
- refsuait
- refuasit
- refusaitt
- refusati
- refusiat
- refussait
- reufsait
- rfeusait
- rrefusait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of refusait - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).