Which to use
“excusée” and “excuser” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #39,286
- “excusée” frequency rank
- #5,979
- “excuser” frequency rank
- 45265
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excusée | excuser |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de excuser. | Disculper dans une certaine mesure, présenter une personne ou une action comme moins coupable qu’elle ne semble. |
Same sound, different letters: excusée vs excuser
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. excusée (VCCVCVV) and excuser (VCCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Same sound, different spelling - excusée / excuser
This is the hard kind. excusée and excuser are pronounced identically (\ɛk.sky.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 45265, 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\. excuser is at rank #5,979, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛk.sky.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 45265, this pair ranks #204,102 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of excusée vs excuser
Shared letters: cesux. Private to "excusée": é. Private to "excuser": r.
"excusée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV · "excuser" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- excuser ← ecxuser · exccuser · excsuer · excuesr · excuserr · excusre · excusser · exucser
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "excusée" for "excuser" ever safe?
Which is more common, "excusée" or "excuser"?
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 "excusée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "excuser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #204,102 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excusée" and "excuser" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excusée 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 #204,102 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.