USA
\y.ɛs.a\
The verdict
“USA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,602) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,602
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - États-Unis d’Amérique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-usa · USA · French
USA · rank #2,602 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,602
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH touché
Nearest frequency peer: touché (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « USA »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- tom
tom
97,401 corpus weight
- touché
touché
97,400 corpus weight
- USA
USA
97,399 corpus weight
- vivent
vivent
97,398 corpus weight
- évident
évident
97,397 corpus weight
- acquis
acquis
97,396 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « USA » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | USA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \y.ɛs.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « USA »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for USA is neighbouring look-alikes ("UV", "ut", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \y.ɛs.a\. Frequency #2,602 among 456 “U” headwords. Gloss: "États-Unis d’Amérique.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for USA, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "UV", "ut", "ux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is USA, spelled U-S-A.
Definition
- 1États-Unis d’Amérique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how USA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 13 novembre 1970, dans les premiers jours du gouvernement Allende, on réalisa au Chili une étude préliminaire sur les relations militaires de ce pays avec les USA.
J'fais belek quand j'installe le exe, j'sais dans quoi les USA excellent.
Synonyms
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); 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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