usités
\y.zi.te\
The verdict
“usités” is uncommon French (frequency #84,406 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,406
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de usiter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-usites · usités · French
usités · rank #84,406 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,406
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH urbaniser
Nearest frequency peer: urbaniser (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « usités »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- unum
unum
15,597 corpus weight
- urbaniser
urbaniser
15,596 corpus weight
- usités
usités
15,595 corpus weight
- valeureuse
valeureuse
15,594 corpus weight
- valseuses
valseuses
15,593 corpus weight
- vantardise
vantardise
15,592 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « usités » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usités |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \y.zi.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « usités » en français
Rare enough to double-check
usités is uncommon French at frequency #84,406 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \y.zi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel de usiter.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for usités, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is usités, spelled U-S-I-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel de usiter.
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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