user

\y.ze\

/\y.ze\/ verb

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The verdict

“user” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,631) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#8,631
frequency rank, French
456
“U” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Détériorer par l’usage.

Corpus desk

Index FR-user · user · French

user · rank #8,631 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,631
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-MID 456
  • PHOTO-FINISH tuyau

Nearest frequency peer: tuyau (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « user »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « user » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

user vs uss
50% similar
user vs usés
50% similar
user vs Uzès
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for user
PropertyValue
Headworduser
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\y.ze\
Letters4
Frequency rank#8,631
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « user »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).userse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tuyau » (#8,630), « vendent » (#8,632), « touchée » (#8,629). Parmi 456 lemmes en « U », « user » est au #8,631. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for user is neighbouring look-alikes ("uss", "usés", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \y.ze\. Frequency #8,631 among 456 “U” headwords. 8 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for user, with forms such as "uesr", "userr", and "usser". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is user, spelled U-S-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Détériorer par l’usage.
  2. 2
    Consommer, utiliser, se servir de quelque chose.
  3. 3
    Diminuer par le frottement.
  4. 4
    Amoindrir, affaiblir.
  5. 5
    Consumer.
  6. 6
    Employer, faire usage de quelque chose, s’en servir.
  7. 7
    Utiliser un système, faire l’usage d’un système.
  8. 8
    Se détériorer à l’usage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how user appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Si la chaleur cosmique diminue, c'est donc que le monde n'a pas toujours existé, sans quoi, […], il y a longtemps qu'elle serait complétement usée.
  2. Il a usé sa vie au service de son pays.

This word in other languages

wear down(English)desgastar(Español)abnutzen(Deutsch)desgastar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • uesr
  • userr
  • usser

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of user - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

uesr2userr1usser1
Edit distance from "user"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "user"?
"user" is spelled U-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \y.ze\.
What does "user" mean?
As a verb, "user" means: Détériorer par l’usage.
What words are commonly confused with "user"?
"user" is commonly confused with "uss", "usés", "Uzès". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "user"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "user" is \y.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "user" come from?
"user" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "user", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sara#8,617arte#8,655aval#8,657boom#8,662

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list