usurpée
\y.zyʁ.pe\
The verdict
“usurpée” is uncommon French (frequency #73,629 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,629
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de usurper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-usurpee · usurpée · French
usurpée · rank #73,629 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,629
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH Ussel
Nearest frequency peer: Ussel (-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 « usurpée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- unai
unai
26,376 corpus weight
- uruguayens
uruguayens
26,375 corpus weight
- Ussel
Ussel
26,373 corpus weight
- usurpée
usurpée
26,372 corpus weight
- Utica
Utica
26,371 corpus weight
- valaisan
valaisan
26,370 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « usurpée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usurpée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \y.zyʁ.pe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « usurpée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
usurpée is uncommon French at frequency #73,629 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \y.zyʁ.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de usurper.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for usurpée, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is usurpée, spelled U-S-U-R-P-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de usurper.
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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