usage
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,243
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
usage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Coutume ; pratique reçue. Pronounced \y.zaʒ\. It ranks #1,243 in French word frequency. Often confused with usé and usée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.zaʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,243 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for usage is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \y.zaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,243 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for usage, with forms such as "suage", "uasge", and "usaeg". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "usé", "usée", "usine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is usage, spelled U-S-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Coutume ; pratique reçue.
- 2Habitude, pratique particulière.
- 3Connaissance pratique acquise par l’expérience.
- 4Expérience de la société, habitude d’en pratiquer les devoirs, d’en observer les règles.
- 5Emploi d’une chose.
- 6Utilité, possibilité d’emploi d’une chose.
- 7Emploi qu’on fait des mots de la langue, tel que la coutume l’a réglé.
- 8Emploi personnel qu’on fait des mots.
- 9Usufruit, droit de se servir personnellement d’une chose dont la propriété est à un autre.
- 10Usufruit, droit de se servir personnellement d’une chose dont la propriété est à un autre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: suage,uasge,usaeg,usagge,usgae,ussage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for usage
Misspelling Variants of "usage"
Frequency rank: #1,243 in French
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