Which to use
“excuser” and “excusez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,979
- “excuser” frequency rank
- #9,653
- “excusez” frequency rank
- 15632
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excuser | excusez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Disculper dans une certaine mesure, présenter une personne ou une action comme moins coupable qu’elle ne semble. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de excuser. |
Same sound, different letters: excuser vs excusez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. excuser and excusez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Ear matches; page differs - excuser and excusez
This is the hard kind. excuser and excusez 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 differ by a single letter - r in “excuser” becomes z in “excusez”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15632, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excuser is recorded at frequency rank #5,979, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛk.sky.ze\. excusez is at rank #9,653, 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 15632, this pair ranks #391,523 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of excuser vs excusez
Shared letters: cesux. Private to "excuser": r. Private to "excusez": z.
"excuser" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC · "excusez" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "excuser" and "excusez" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "excuser" vs "excusez" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "excuser" / "excusez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "excuser" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "excusez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #391,523 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excuser" and "excusez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excusez vs exposez". 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 #391,523 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.