assaillant
\a.sa.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“assaillant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,828. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,828
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui assaille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assaillant · assaillant · French
assaillant · rank #31,828 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #31,828
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 424,905
- PHOTO-FINISH asperges
Nearest frequency peer: asperges (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “assaillant”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- artisanaux
artisanaux
68,176 corpus weight
- ASN
ASN
68,175 corpus weight
- asperges
asperges
68,174 corpus weight
- assaillant
assaillant
68,173 corpus weight
- ath
ath
68,171 corpus weight
- attelle
attelle
68,170 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “assaillant” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assaillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.sa.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #31,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “assaillant” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around assaillant (IPA \a.sa.jɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,828 among 424,905 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui assaille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for assaillant, with forms such as "asaillant", "asasillant", and "assailalnt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "assaillants", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is assaillant, spelled A-S-S-A-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui assaille.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asaillant
- asasillant
- assailalnt
- assailant
- assaillannt
- assaillantt
- assaillatn
- assaillnat
- assalilant
- assiallant
- sasaillant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assaillant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "assaillant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.