usures

\y.zyʁ\

/\y.zyʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“usures” is uncommon French (frequency #91,265 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#91,265
frequency rank, French
456
“U” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de usure.

Corpus desk

Index FR-usures · usures · French

usures · rank #91,265 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #91,265
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 456
  • PHOTO-FINISH uw

Nearest frequency peer: uw (+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 « usures »

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 « usures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for usures
PropertyValue
Headwordusures
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\y.zyʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#91,265
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « usures » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.usurestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « uw » (#91,266), « vacataire » (#91,267), « valente » (#91,268). Parmi 456 lemmes en « U », « usures » est au #91,265. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

usures is uncommon French at frequency #91,265 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \y.zyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de usure.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for usures in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is usures, spelled U-S-U-R-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de usure.

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 "usures"?
"usures" is spelled U-S-U-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \y.zyʁ\.
What does "usures" mean?
As a noun, "usures" means: Pluriel de usure.
How do you pronounce "usures"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "usures" is \y.zyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "usures", 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