usually
\ˈjuːʒʊəli\
The verdict
“usually” is uncommon French (frequency #94,362 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,362
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D'habitude, ordinairement, d'ordinaire, habituellement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-usually · usually · French
usually · rank #94,362 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,362
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH uru
Nearest frequency peer: uru (-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 « usually »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ultimatums
ultimatums
5,643 corpus weight
- Uranie
Uranie
5,641 corpus weight
- uru
uru
5,640 corpus weight
- usually
usually
5,639 corpus weight
- Valensole
Valensole
5,638 corpus weight
- Valençay
Valençay
5,637 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « usually » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usually |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ˈjuːʒʊəli\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « usually » en français
Rare enough to double-check
usually is uncommon French at frequency #94,362 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ˈjuːʒʊəli\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for usually in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is usually, spelled U-S-U-A-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1D'habitude, ordinairement, d'ordinaire, habituellement.
- 2Généralement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how usually appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work.
This breakfast cereal usually comes in a green box, and now it's in a blue box.
Synonyms
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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