usure
\y.zyʁ\
The verdict
“usure” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,499. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,499
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intérêt, profit qu’on exige d’un argent ou d’une marchandise prêtée, au-dessus du taux fixé par la loi ou établi par l’usage en matière de commerce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-usure · usure · French
usure · rank #11,499 · 6 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,499
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH unie
Nearest frequency peer: unie (-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 « usure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- UEFA
UEFA
88,505 corpus weight
- ultérieurem…
ultérieurement
88,504 corpus weight
- unie
unie
88,503 corpus weight
- usure
usure
88,502 corpus weight
- Varsovie
Varsovie
88,501 corpus weight
- visuels
visuels
88,500 corpus weight
What this shows « usure » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.zyʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « usure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around usure (IPA \y.zyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,499 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Intérêt, profit qu’on exige d’un argent ou d’une marchandise prêtée, au-dessus du taux fixé par la loi ou établi par l’usage en matière de commerce.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for usure, with forms such as "suure", "usrue", and "ussure". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "œuvre", "usurpé", "usurper", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is usure, spelled U-S-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Intérêt, profit qu’on exige d’un argent ou d’une marchandise prêtée, au-dessus du taux fixé par la loi ou établi par l’usage en matière de commerce.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how usure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oui, dit le chevalier, pour ronger les entrailles de nos nobles par l’usure, et pour tromper nos femmes et nos enfants avec des joyaux et des babioles ; […].
Mais nous avons vu comment Saint Louis, poussé par ses convictions religieuses, voulut rendre l'usure impraticable.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- suure
- usrue
- ussure
- usuer
- usurre
- uusre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of usure - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).