assassination
\ə.ˌsæs.ɪ.ˈneɪ.ʃən\
The verdict
“assassination” is uncommon French (frequency #97,667 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,667
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Magnicide; assassinat à mobile politique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assassination · assassination · French
assassination · rank #97,667 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,667
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assaisonnés
Nearest frequency peer: assaisonnés (-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 « assassination »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- archonte
archonte
2,339 corpus weight
- aristarque
aristarque
2,338 corpus weight
- assaini
assaini
2,336 corpus weight
- assaisonnés
assaisonnés
2,335 corpus weight
- assassinati…
assassination
2,334 corpus weight
- assortit
assortit
2,332 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « assassination » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assassination |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ə.ˌsæs.ɪ.ˈneɪ.ʃən\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #97,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « assassination » en français
Rare enough to double-check
assassination is uncommon French at frequency #97,667 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ə.ˌsæs.ɪ.ˈneɪ.ʃən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Magnicide; assassinat à mobile politique.".
assassination doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is assassination, spelled A-S-S-A-S-S-I-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Magnicide; assassinat à mobile politique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how assassination appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the Kennedy assassination
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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