assaillir
French, verb/a.sa.jiʁ/
assaillir is spelled A-S-S-A-I-L-L-I-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 81,899th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Assaillir is a French verb meaning “to assail; to assault; to attack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Survenir subitement et violemment, en parlant d’intempéries ou d’éléments naturels”.
What does assaillir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to assail; to assault; to attack
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Survenir subitement et violemment, en parlant d’intempéries ou d’éléments naturels. 2. Attaquer vivement par surprise.
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.
Forms of assaillir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- assaillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- assailli participle past
- assaille first-person indicative present
- assailles indicative present second-person
- assaillons first-person indicative plural
- assaillez indicative plural present
- assaillent indicative plural present
- assaillais first-person imperfect indicative
- assaillait imperfect indicative singular
- assaillions first-person imperfect indicative
- assailliez imperfect indicative plural
- assaillaient imperfect indicative plural
- assaillis first-person historic indicative
- assaillit historic indicative past
- assaillîmes first-person historic indicative
- assaillîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce assaillir?
- /a.sa.jiʁ/
- \a.sa.jiʁ\
- [a.sa.jiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to assaillir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is assaillir in French?
assaillir appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).