assassinant
\a.sa.si.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“assassinant” is uncommon French (frequency #80,883 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,883
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ennuyeux, fatigant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assassinant · assassinant · French
assassinant · rank #80,883 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,883
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assaisonnée
Nearest frequency peer: assaisonnée (-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 « assassinant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aspres
aspres
19,120 corpus weight
- assaisonnée
assaisonnée
19,119 corpus weight
- assassinant
assassinant
19,118 corpus weight
- asthénie
asthénie
19,117 corpus weight
- asu
asu
19,116 corpus weight
- attardant
attardant
19,115 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « assassinant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assassinant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.sa.si.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #80,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « assassinant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
assassinant is uncommon French at frequency #80,883 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.sa.si.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ennuyeux, fatigant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for assassinant, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is assassinant, spelled A-S-S-A-S-S-I-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Ennuyeux, fatigant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how assassinant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et dans le procédé des Dieux Dont tu veux que je me contente, Une rigueur assassinante Ne paraît-elle pas aux yeux ?
Synonyms
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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