assassination
\ə.ˌsæs.ɪ.ˈneɪ.ʃən\
The verdict
“assassination” is an uncommon French word, ranked #97,667 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #97,667
- frequency rank, French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Magnicide; assassinat à mobile politique.
| 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) |
Where “assassination” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for assassination is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ə.ˌsæs.ɪ.ˈneɪ.ʃən\. Corpus data places it at rank #97,667 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “assassination”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-S-S-A-S-S-I-N-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ə.ˌsæs.ɪ.ˈneɪ.ʃən\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.