-us
\ys\
The verdict
“-us” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a suffix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suffixe servant à former des adjectifs à partir d’une base verbale ou nominale : -eux, -ant, -able, -ible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-us · -us · French
-us · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "-" 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 | -us |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | \ys\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « -us » en français
Rare enough to double-check
-us is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as asuffix, transcribed \ys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
-us doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is -us, spelled --U-S.
Definition
- 1Suffixe servant à former des adjectifs à partir d’une base verbale ou nominale : -eux, -ant, -able, -ible.
- 2Suffixe servant à former des adjectifs à partir d’une base verbale ou nominale : -eux, -ant, -able, -ible.
- 3Suffixe servant à former des adjectifs à partir d’une base verbale ou nominale : -eux, -ant, -able, -ible.
- 4Suffixe servant à former des adjectifs à partir d’une base verbale ou nominale : -eux, -ant, -able, -ible.
- 5Suffixe servant à former des adjectifs à partir d’une base verbale ou nominale : -eux, -ant, -able, -ible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how -us appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trouzus de trouzal (« bruire, faire du bruit ») : qui bruit, bruyant.
Fonnus de fonnañ (« abonder ») : qui abonde, abondant.
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.