scusez
\sky.ze\
The verdict
“scusez” is uncommon French (frequency #90,181 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,181
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème) Mot utilisé pour présenter des excuses à quelqu’un que l’on vouvoie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scusez · scusez · French
scusez · rank #90,181 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,181
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scuola
Nearest frequency peer: scuola (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « scusez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Savenay
Savenay
9,824 corpus weight
- Schérer
Schérer
9,822 corpus weight
- scuola
scuola
9,821 corpus weight
- scusez
scusez
9,820 corpus weight
- selo
selo
9,818 corpus weight
- semiconduct…
semiconducteurs
9,817 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « scusez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scusez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \sky.ze\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « scusez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
scusez is uncommon French at frequency #90,181 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \sky.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème) Mot utilisé pour présenter des excuses à quelqu’un que l’on vouvoie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for scusez, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is scusez, spelled S-C-U-S-E-Z.
Definition
- 1référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème) Mot utilisé pour présenter des excuses à quelqu’un que l’on vouvoie.
Synonyms
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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