usurper
\y.zyʁ.pe\
The verdict
“usurper” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,088. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,088
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’emparer, par violence ou par ruse, d’un bien, d’une souveraineté, d’une dignité, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-usurper · usurper · French
usurper · rank #47,088 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,088
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH vaciller
Nearest frequency peer: vaciller (+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 « usurper »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- trépas
trépas
52,917 corpus weight
- usurper
usurper
52,913 corpus weight
- vaciller
vaciller
52,912 corpus weight
- vaincra
vaincra
52,911 corpus weight
- Valachie
Valachie
52,910 corpus weight
- vandalisé
vandalisé
52,909 corpus weight
What this shows « usurper » 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 | usurper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \y.zyʁ.pe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « usurper »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around usurper (IPA \y.zyʁ.pe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #47,088 among 456 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for usurper, with forms such as "suurper", "usruper", and "ussurper". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "usure", "usurpé", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is usurper, spelled U-S-U-R-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1S’emparer, par violence ou par ruse, d’un bien, d’une souveraineté, d’une dignité, etc.
- 2Empiéter.
- 3Prendre ou s’établir de manière indue.
- 4Occuper un emplacement illégitime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how usurper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a tenté d'usurper le poste de directeur en falsifiant des documents. Il a donc voulu s'approprier illégalement ou sans droit cette fonction ou ce titre.
Que tout individu qui usurperait la souveraineté soit à l'instant mis à mort par les hommes libres.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- suurper
- usruper
- ussurper
- usuprer
- usurepr
- usurperr
- usurpper
- usurpre
- usurrper
- uusrper
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of usurper - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).