refusez
\ʁə.fy.ze\
The verdict
“refusez” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,714. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,714
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de refuser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-refusez · refusez · French
refusez · rank #28,714 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,714
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rectangulaires
Nearest frequency peer: rectangulaires (-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 « refusez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reconnaisso…
reconnaissons
71,290 corpus weight
- reconsidérer
reconsidérer
71,289 corpus weight
- rectangulai…
rectangulaires
71,288 corpus weight
- refusez
refusez
71,287 corpus weight
- regroupé
regroupé
71,286 corpus weight
- relatant
relatant
71,285 corpus weight
What this shows « refusez » 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 | refusez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fy.ze\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « refusez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around refusez (IPA \ʁə.fy.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,714 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for refusez, with forms such as "erfusez", "reffusez", and "refsuez". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "réfuter", "reposez", "relisez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 refusez, spelled R-E-F-U-S-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de refuser.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de refuser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how refusez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous pourriez envenimer la situation si vous refusez d’arrondir les angles.
Exterminez-vous ; allez pour une femme à Sainte-Pélagie, tuez vingt-deux hommes, abandonnez sept filles, servez Laban, traversez le désert, côtoyez le bagne, couvrez-vous de gloire, couvrez-vous de honte, refusez comme Nelson de livrer bataille pour aller baiser l’épaule de lady Hamilton, comme Bonaparte battez le vieux Wurmser, fendez-vous sur le pont d’…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erfusez
- reffusez
- refsuez
- refuesz
- refusezz
- refussez
- refusze
- reufsez
- rfeusez
- rrefusez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of refusez - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "refusez", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).