assassine
French, noun
assassine is spelled A-S-S-A-S-S-I-N-E (9 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Assassine is a French feminine noun meaning “female equivalent of assassin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of assassin. With an accent, assassiné is a different word: “past participle of assassiner”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Femme qui assassine”.
What does assassine mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of assassin
noun
- 1
femininefemale equivalent of assassin
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of assassiner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Femme qui assassine.
noun: 1. Mouche assassine, grain de beauté factice.
adjective: 1. Tué en guet-apens. 2. Profondément embarrassé, importuné, gêné.
noun: 1. Celui qui a été assassiné.
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 assassine
- assassines plural
- assassinée feminine
- assassinés masculine plural
- assassinées feminine plural
- assassin masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to assassine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is assassine in French?
assassine appears 11 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).