usent
\yz\
The verdict
“usent” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,851. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,851
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de user.
Corpus desk
Index FR-usent · usent · French
usent · rank #30,851 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,851
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH urines
Nearest frequency peer: urines (-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 « usent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tuait
tuait
69,153 corpus weight
- Télérama
Télérama
69,152 corpus weight
- urines
urines
69,151 corpus weight
- usent
usent
69,150 corpus weight
- usée
usée
69,149 corpus weight
- Vance
Vance
69,148 corpus weight
What this shows « usent » 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 | usent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \yz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #30,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « usent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around usent (IPA \yz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,851 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 usent, with forms such as "suent", "uesnt", and "usennt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "user", "usés", "usine", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is usent, spelled U-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de user.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de user.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- suent
- uesnt
- usennt
- usentt
- usetn
- usnet
- ussent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of usent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).