usuraire
\y.zy.ʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“usuraire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Où il y a manifestement de l’usure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-usuraire · usuraire · French
usuraire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usuraire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \y.zy.ʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
usuraire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \y.zy.ʁɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Où il y a manifestement de l’usure.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for usuraire, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is usuraire, spelled U-S-U-R-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Où il y a manifestement de l’usure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how usuraire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’officier entreprit de faire une distinction entre les créanciers de l’état, d’exclure du droit absolu à la bonne foi du gouvernement ceux qui avaient prêté à un taux trop élevé, à un taux usuraire ; […].
Il ne refusait jamais d'accéder aux demandes de petits prêts d'argent qu'il consentait à des taux point trop usuraires pour l'époque.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.