assai
French, adverb/a.saj/
assai is spelled A-S-S-A-I (5 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 125,137th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Assai is a French adverb meaning “assai” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se joint comme augmentatif au mot qui indique le mouvement d’un air”.
What does assai mean in English?
adverb
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assai
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. Se joint comme augmentatif au mot qui indique le mouvement d’un air.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce assai?
- /a.saj/
- \a.saj\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is assai in French?
assai appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).