user
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,631
in French word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
user is aFrenchverb. It means: Détériorer par l’usage. Pronounced \y.ze\. It ranks #8,631 in French word frequency. Often confused with uss and usés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | user |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \y.ze\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for user is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \y.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,631 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for user, with forms such as "uesr", "userr", and "usser". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "uss", "usés", "Uzès", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is user, spelled U-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Détériorer par l’usage.
- 2Consommer, utiliser, se servir de quelque chose.
- 3Diminuer par le frottement.
- 4Amoindrir, affaiblir.
- 5Consumer.
- 6Employer, faire usage de quelque chose, s’en servir.
- 7Utiliser un système, faire l’usage d’un système.
- 8Se détériorer à l’usage.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: uesr,userr,usser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for user
Misspelling Variants of "user"
Frequency rank: #8,631 in French
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