amuséevsamusentConfusable pair

Which to use

“amusée” and “amusent” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#26,256
“amusée” frequency rank
#16,058
“amusent” frequency rank
42314
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature amusée amusent
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe amuser. Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe amuser.

Where the eye mixes amusée and amusent

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. amusée runs 6 letters (VCVCVV) against amusent's 7 (VCVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
amusée
7 ch
amusent

Why the eye confuses amusée with amusent

A purely visual mix-up. amusée (\a.my.ze\) and amusent (\a.myz\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42314, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

amusée is recorded at frequency rank #26,256, classified as averb, pronounced \a.my.ze\. amusent is at rank #16,058, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.myz\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 42314, this pair ranks #226,550 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of amusée vs amusent

Shared letters: aemsu. Private to "amusée": é. Private to "amusent": nt.

"amusée" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVV  ·  "amusent" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • amusent ← ammusent · amsuent · amuesnt · amusennt · amusentt · amusetn · amusnet · amussent

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "amusée" for "amusent" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\a.my.ze\ versus \a.myz\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "amusée" or "amusent"?
"amusent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,058 in our French list, against #26,256 for "amusée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "amusée" and "amusent" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "amusée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "amusent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #226,550 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "amusée" and "amusent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "abusée vs amusée". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #226,550 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list