usités

\y.zi.te\

/\y.zi.te\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « usités » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for usités
PropertyValue
Headwordusités
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\y.zi.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#84,406
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « usités » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).usitéstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « urbaniser » (#84,405), « valeureuse » (#84,407), « unum » (#84,404). Parmi 456 lemmes en « U », « usités » est au #84,406. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Participe 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "usités"?
"usités" is spelled U-S-I-T-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \y.zi.te\.
What does "usités" mean?
As a verb, "usités" means: Participe passé masculin pluriel de usiter.
How do you pronounce "usités"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "usités" 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 "usités" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list