amuséevsamuserTell them apart

Which to use

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

#26,256
“amusée” frequency rank
#4,824
“amuser” frequency rank
31080
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature amusée amuser
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe amuser. Divertir par des choses agréables.

Same sound, different letters: amusée vs amuser

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.

6 ch
amusée
6 ch
amuser

Ear matches; page differs - amusée and amuser

This is the hard kind. amusée and amuser are pronounced identically (\a.my.ze\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31080, 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\. amuser is at rank #4,824, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.my.ze\.

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 31080, this pair ranks #306,121 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of amusée vs amuser

Shared letters: aemsu. Private to "amusée": é. Private to "amuser": r.

"amusée" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVV  ·  "amuser" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • amuserammuser · amsuer · amuesr · amuserr · amusre · amusser · aumser · mauser

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "amusée" for "amuser" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\a.my.ze\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "amusée" vs "amuser" - which ranks higher?
"amuser" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,824 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.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "amusée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "amuser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #306,121 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "amusée" and "amuser" 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 #306,121 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