Which to use
“excusée” and “excusent” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #39,286
- “excusée” frequency rank
- #47,325
- “excusent” frequency rank
- 86611
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excusée | excusent |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de excuser. | Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de excuser. |
Where the eye mixes excusée and excusent
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. excusée runs 7 letters (VCCVCVV) against excusent's 8 (VCCVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: excusée vs excusent
A purely visual mix-up. excusée (\ɛk.sky.ze\) and excusent (\ɛk.skyz\) 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 86611, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excusée is recorded at frequency rank #39,286, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛk.sky.ze\. excusent is at rank #47,325, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛk.skyz\.
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 86611, this pair ranks #9,444 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of excusée vs excusent
Shared letters: cesux. Private to "excusée": é. Private to "excusent": nt.
"excusée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV · "excusent" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- excusent ← ecxusent · exccusent · excsuent · excuesnt · excusennt · excusentt · excusetn · excusnet
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "excusée" and "excusent" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "excusée" vs "excusent" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "excusée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "excusent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #9,444 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excusée" and "excusent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excusant vs excusent". 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 #9,444 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.