refusèrent
\ʁə.fy.zɛʁ\
The verdict
“refusèrent” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,572. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,572
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de refuser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refuserent · refusèrent · French
refusèrent · rank #42,572 · 16 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,572
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH redskins
Nearest frequency peer: redskins (-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 « refusèrent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- recyclable
recyclable
57,432 corpus weight
- redoutant
redoutant
57,431 corpus weight
- redskins
redskins
57,430 corpus weight
- refusèrent
refusèrent
57,429 corpus weight
- reina
reina
57,428 corpus weight
- rejointe
rejointe
57,427 corpus weight
What this shows « refusèrent » 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 | refusèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fy.zɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #42,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « refusèrent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around refusèrent (IPA \ʁə.fy.zɛʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,572 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de refuser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for refusèrent, with forms such as "erfusèrent", "reffusèrent", and "refsuèrent". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "requièrent", "refuseront", "refusent", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is refusèrent, spelled R-E-F-U-S-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de refuser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how refusèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je leur offris de les rapatrier, mais ils refusèrent, préférant accomplir leur devoir jusqu’au bout et parachever leur œuvre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erfusèrent
- reffusèrent
- refsuèrent
- refuserent
- refusrèent
- refussèrent
- refusèernt
- refusèrennt
- refusèrentt
- refusèretn
- refusèrnet
- refusèrrent
- refuèsrent
- reufsèrent
- rfeusèrent
- rrefusèrent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of refusèrent - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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