vus
\vy\
The verdict
“vus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,090) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,090
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de voir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vus · vus · French
vus · rank #5,090 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,090
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vif
Nearest frequency peer: vif (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « vus »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- vendus
vendus
94,914 corpus weight
- vengeance
vengeance
94,913 corpus weight
- vif
vif
94,912 corpus weight
- vus
vus
94,911 corpus weight
- your
your
94,910 corpus weight
- écologie
écologie
94,909 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « vus » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | vus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vy\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « vus »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vus is neighbouring look-alikes ("VW", "V", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \vy\. Frequency #5,090 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel de voir.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for vus in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "VW", "V", "va", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is vus, spelled V-U-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel de voir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jamais nous n’avons eu l’ineptie de penser que les catholiques dussent être opprimés, qu’ils dussent être vus avec défaveur par le gouvernement, qu’ils dussent être exclus des emplois publics, qu’ils dussent même être exclus du ministère.
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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