assaillir
\a.sa.jiʁ\
The verdict
“assaillir” is uncommon French (frequency #81,773 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,773
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Survenir subitement et violemment, en parlant d’intempéries ou d’éléments naturels.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assaillir · assaillir · French
assaillir · rank #81,773 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,773
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ashkénazes
Nearest frequency peer: ashkénazes (-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 « assaillir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arson
arson
18,232 corpus weight
- ashanti
ashanti
18,230 corpus weight
- ashkénazes
ashkénazes
18,229 corpus weight
- assaillir
assaillir
18,228 corpus weight
- asta
asta
18,226 corpus weight
- atterrée
atterrée
18,224 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « assaillir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assaillir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.sa.jiʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « assaillir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
assaillir is uncommon French at frequency #81,773 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.sa.jiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for assaillir in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is assaillir, spelled A-S-S-A-I-L-L-I-R.
Definition
- 1Survenir subitement et violemment, en parlant d’intempéries ou d’éléments naturels.
- 2Attaquer vivement par surprise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how assaillir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 30 août l’« Hekla » voulu rejoindre la glace et explorer la côte : coup sur coup elle fut assaillie par de violentes tempêtes avec neige et pluie […]
De Gaulle que tant de tempêtes avaient assailli sans jamais l’ébranler, s’évanouit et disparut à la première égratignure que lui fit un parlement-croupion.
This word in other languages
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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