assart
/əˈsɑː(ɹ)t/
"assart" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“assart” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forest land cleared for agriculture.
Corpus desk
Index EN-assart · assart · English
assart · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assart |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈsɑː(ɹ)t/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “assart” in English
Rare enough to double-check
assart is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈsɑː(ɹ)t/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
assart doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French essart from Vulgar Latin exsartum. The correct English form is assart, spelled A-S-S-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1Forest land cleared for agriculture.
- 2The act or offence of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how assart appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] an assart of the Forest, is the greatest offence or trespasse of all other, that can be done in the forest, to vert or venison, containing in it as much as waste or more. For whereas the waste of the Forest, is but the felling and cutting downe of the couerts, which may grow againe in time: an assart, is a plucking them vp […]
Etymology
From French essart from Vulgar Latin exsartum.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.