s’excuser
\s‿ɛk.sky.ze\
The verdict
“s’excuser” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner des raisons pour se disculper ou pour se dispenser de faire quelque chose ; présenter ses excuses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-s-excuser · s’excuser · French
s’excuser · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | s’excuser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \s‿ɛk.sky.ze\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « s’excuser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
s’excuser is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \s‿ɛk.sky.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Donner des raisons pour se disculper ou pour se dispenser de faire quelque chose ; présenter ses excuses.".
Zero misspellings are on record for s’excuser in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is s’excuser, spelled S-’-E-X-C-U-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner des raisons pour se disculper ou pour se dispenser de faire quelque chose ; présenter ses excuses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how s’excuser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Ne vous excusez pas, dit-il au docteur qui lui demandait grâce pour l’heure et le moment choisi de notre visite, sans quoi j’aurais trop moi-même à m’excuser. »
Le dernier pilorié fut un nommé Billard, janséniste, qui, ayant fait banqueroute, s’excusait en disant qu'il avait voulu s'enrichir pour donner aux pauvres.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.