assa
\a.sa\
The verdict
“assa” is uncommon French (frequency #60,551 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,551
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suc végétal concret, il y en a de deux espèces :
Corpus desk
Index FR-assa · assa · French
assa · rank #60,551 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,551
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assouplit
Nearest frequency peer: assouplit (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « assa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arnica
arnica
39,454 corpus weight
- artériel
artériel
39,453 corpus weight
- ascétique
ascétique
39,452 corpus weight
- assa
assa
39,450 corpus weight
- assouplit
assouplit
39,449 corpus weight
- Aubameyang
Aubameyang
39,446 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « assa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « assa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
assa is uncommon French at frequency #60,551 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Suc végétal concret, il y en a de deux espèces :".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for assa, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is assa, spelled A-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Suc végétal concret, il y en a de deux espèces :
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how assa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Assa dulcis : résine du benjoin.
Assa foetida : résine du silphium.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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