usance
\y.zɑ̃s\
The verdict
“usance” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En droit commercial, règle découlant de pratiques généralement reconnues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-usance · usance · French
usance · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" 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 | usance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.zɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « usance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
usance is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \y.zɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
usance doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is usance, spelled U-S-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1En droit commercial, règle découlant de pratiques généralement reconnues.
- 2Terme fixé pour le payement d’une lettre de change, il est généralement de trente jours.
- 3Coutume, usage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how usance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Règles et Usances Uniformes (RUU) sont un ensemble de règles utilisées notamment pour les lettres de crédit de la Chambre de commerce internationale (CCI/ICC). Les RUU sont utilisées par les banques et commerçants dans plus de 175 pays.
C’est une usance qui apporte des commodités singulières aux nations où elle est observée, & désirable à tous bons princes qui ont à se plaindre de ce qu’on traite la mémoire des méchants comme la leur.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.