assaillent
\a.saj\
The verdict
“assaillent” is uncommon French (frequency #68,054 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,054
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de assaillir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assaillent · assaillent · French
assaillent · rank #68,054 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,054
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ASMR
Nearest frequency peer: ASMR (-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 « assaillent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- asbestos
asbestos
31,950 corpus weight
- aseptisé
aseptisé
31,949 corpus weight
- ASMR
ASMR
31,948 corpus weight
- assaillent
assaillent
31,947 corpus weight
- assistées
assistées
31,946 corpus weight
- astreindre
astreindre
31,945 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « assaillent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assaillent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.saj\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « assaillent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
assaillent is uncommon French at frequency #68,054 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.saj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for assaillent, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is assaillent, spelled A-S-S-A-I-L-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de assaillir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de assaillir.
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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