usant
\y.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“usant” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,308. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,308
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui use physiquement ou moralement une personne, fatigant, crevant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-usant · usant · French
usant · rank #20,308 · 7 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,308
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH Uno
Nearest frequency peer: Uno (-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 « usant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- télécoms
télécoms
79,695 corpus weight
- Uno
Uno
79,694 corpus weight
- usant
usant
79,693 corpus weight
- ustensiles
ustensiles
79,692 corpus weight
- vacants
vacants
79,691 corpus weight
- verrou
verrou
79,690 corpus weight
What this shows « usant » 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 | usant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \y.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « usant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around usant (IPA \y.zɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,308 among 456 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for usant, with forms such as "suant", "uasnt", and "usannt". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "usine", "usent", "using", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is usant, spelled U-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui use physiquement ou moralement une personne, fatigant, crevant.
- 2Qui n'est sous l'autorité de personne, qui est hors de tutelle, qui use et jouit de ses droits.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how usant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Daudet porte sa maladie avec dignité, certes, mais la souffrance est usante et elle fait ressortir la désillusion des bonheurs perdus.
Fille usante de ses droits.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- suant
- uasnt
- usannt
- usantt
- usatn
- usnat
- ussant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of usant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "usant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).