usages
\y.zaʒ\
The verdict
“usages” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,937. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,937
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de usage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-usages · usages · French
usages · rank #5,937 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,937
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH turc
Nearest frequency peer: turc (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « usages »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- traditionne…
traditionnels
94,067 corpus weight
- transporter
transporter
94,066 corpus weight
- turc
turc
94,065 corpus weight
- usages
usages
94,064 corpus weight
- violents
violents
94,063 corpus weight
- âmes
âmes
94,062 corpus weight
What this shows « usages » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | usages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.zaʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « usages »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around usages (IPA \y.zaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,937 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de usage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for usages, with forms such as "suages", "uasges", and "usaegs". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "usés", "usées", "usage", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is usages, spelled U-S-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de usage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how usages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut le rappeler, la liturgie de l’Église orthodoxe est vivante, ne cessant de s’enrichir continuellement de nouveaux hymnes, composés par des poètes et des musiciens de notre temps, selon des usages multiséculaires.
Celui-ci s'est alors tourné vers la Cour de justice européenne afin de savoir si la collecte des données de civilité des clients, limitée aux mentions "Monsieur" et "Madame", peut se voir qualifiée de licite et conforme, notamment, au principe de minimisation des données, "lorsque cette collecte vise à permettre une communication commerciale personnalisée…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- suages
- uasges
- usaegs
- usagess
- usagges
- usagse
- usgaes
- ussages
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of usages - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).