assassinat

\a.sa.si.na\

/\a.sa.si.na\/ noun

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The verdict

“assassinat” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,314. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,314
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’assassiner, de donner la mort intentionnellement.

Corpus desk

Index FR-assassinat · assassinat · French

assassinat · rank #5,314 · 11 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,314
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH aliments

Nearest frequency peer: aliments (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « assassinat »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « assassinat » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

assassinat vs assassins
80% similar
assassinat vs assassine
80% similar
assassinat vs assassiner
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for assassinat
PropertyValue
Headwordassassinat
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.sa.si.na\
Letters10
Frequency rank#5,314
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « assassinat »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).assassinatse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « aliments » (#5,313), « biologique » (#5,316), « alger » (#5,311). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « assassinat » est au #5,314. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around assassinat (IPA \a.sa.si.na\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,314 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for assassinat, with forms such as "asassinat", "asasssinat", and "assasinat". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "assassins", "assassine", "assassiner", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists 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 assassinat, spelled A-S-S-A-S-S-I-N-A-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’assassiner, de donner la mort intentionnellement.
  2. 2
    Meurtre avec préméditation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how assassinat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il s'était formé à cette époque non pas des tribunaux — la justice se respectait, elle n’ordonne pas l’assassinat des innocents, — mais des cours prévôtales.
  2. Vers 1255, le bailli de Pont-Audemer, nommé Jean de Neuvy, était sous le poids des plus graves accusations, et parmi les nombreux méfaits qui lui étaient reprochés se trouvait l’impunité d'un assassinat commis sur un homme de Bourneville.

Synonyms

meurtre

This word in other languages

assassination(English)asesinato(Español)Mord(Deutsch)assassinato(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asassinat
  • asasssinat
  • assasinat
  • assasisnat
  • assassiant
  • assassinatt
  • assassinnat
  • assassinta
  • assassniat
  • asssasinat
  • sasassinat

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assassinat - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

asassinat1asasssinat2assasinat1assasisnat2assassiant2assassinatt1assassinnat1assassinta2
Edit distance from "assassinat"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "assassinat"?
"assassinat" is spelled A-S-S-A-S-S-I-N-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.sa.si.na\.
What does "assassinat" mean?
As a noun, "assassinat" means: Action d’assassiner, de donner la mort intentionnellement.
What words are commonly confused with "assassinat"?
"assassinat" is commonly confused with "assassins", "assassine", "assassiner". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "assassinat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "assassinat" is \a.sa.si.na\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "assassinat" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "assassinat", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

biologique#5,316transformé#5,301contrainte#5,332entretenir#5,341

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

énormes11 variantssouvient11 variantsrévolte11 variantsJackson11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list