assassinat
French, noun
assassinat is spelled A-S-S-A-S-S-I-N-A-T (10 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,331st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Assassinat is a French masculine noun meaning “assassination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, assassinât is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of assassiner”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’assassiner, de donner la mort intentionnellement”.
What does assassinat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineassassination
- 2
masculinefirst-degree murder (premeditated murder)
verb
- 1
third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of assassiner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’assassiner, de donner la mort intentionnellement. 2. Meurtre avec préméditation.
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 assassinat
- assassinats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to assassinat
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is assassinat in French?
assassinat appears 13 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).