assassinent
\a.sa.sin\
The verdict
“assassinent” is uncommon French (frequency #57,760 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,760
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe assassiner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assassinent · assassinent · French
assassinent · rank #57,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,760
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH asphyxier
Nearest frequency peer: asphyxier (-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 « assassinent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arrêtèrent
arrêtèrent
42,244 corpus weight
- asphyxier
asphyxier
42,242 corpus weight
- assassinent
assassinent
42,241 corpus weight
- assisteront
assisteront
42,240 corpus weight
- assombrir
assombrir
42,238 corpus weight
- Ast
Ast
42,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « assassinent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assassinent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.sa.sin\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « assassinent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
assassinent is uncommon French at frequency #57,760 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.sa.sin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for assassinent, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is assassinent, spelled A-S-S-A-S-S-I-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe assassiner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe assassiner.
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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