usité

\y.zi.te\

/\y.zi.te\/ adj

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The verdict

“usité” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,053. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#41,053
frequency rank, French
456
“U” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est en usage, qui est pratiqué communément.

Corpus desk

Index FR-usite · usité · French

usité · rank #41,053 · 6 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #41,053
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 456
  • PHOTO-FINISH ULB

Nearest frequency peer: ULB (-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 « usité »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « usité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

usité vs utile
40% similar
usité vs usure
40% similar
usité vs usé
60% similar

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

Key facts for usité
PropertyValue
Headwordusité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\y.zi.te\
Letters5
Frequency rank#41,053
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « usité »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.usitése place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ULB » (#41,052), « vaccinations » (#41,054), « tweed » (#41,051). Parmi 456 lemmes en « U », « usité » est au #41,053. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around usité (IPA \y.zi.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #41,053 among 456 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for usité, with forms such as "suité", "uisté", and "usitté". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "utile", "usure", "usé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 usité, spelled U-S-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est en usage, qui est pratiqué communément.
  2. 2
    Qualifie particulièrement l’usage des mots et des locutions.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il exhiba brièvement un morceau d’éperon en forme d’étoile, très usité chez les rancheros.
  2. Cela est fort usité dans ce pays.

This word in other languages

in use(English)usual(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • suité
  • uisté
  • usitté
  • usiét
  • ussité
  • ustié

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

suité2uisté2usitté1usiét2ussité1ustié2
Edit distance from "usité"

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 "usité"?
"usité" is spelled U-S-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \y.zi.te\.
What does "usité" mean?
As an adjective, "usité" means: Qui est en usage, qui est pratiqué communément.
What words are commonly confused with "usité"?
"usité" is commonly confused with "utile", "usure", "usé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "usité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "usité" is \y.zi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "usité" come from?
"usité" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tweed#41,051Tudor#41,050vinyl#41,067Syria#41,033

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

shut6 variantsserrez6 variantsRuhr6 variantsbelt6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list