usage
French, noun
usage is spelled U-S-A-G-E (5 letters) and appears 68 times per million words in written French, the 1,228th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Usage is a French masculine noun meaning “usage, use” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, usagé is a different word: “used”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Coutume ; pratique reçue”.
What does usage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineusage, use
- 2
masculinethe ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are actually used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis (as opposed to correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority)
adjective
- 1
used
- 2
worn
- 3
second-hand
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Coutume ; pratique reçue. 2. Habitude, pratique particulière. 3. Connaissance pratique acquise par l’expérience. 4. Expérience de la société, habitude d’en pratiquer les devoirs, d’en observer les règles.
adjective: 1. Qui a servi, qui n’est plus neuf. 2. Qui porte les marques de l’usage qu’on en a fait. 3. Qui a de l’usage, de bonnes manières.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of usage
- usages plural
- usagée feminine
- usagés masculine plural
- usagées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to usage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is usage in French?
usage appears 68 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).