assassinent
\a.sa.sin\
The verdict
“assassinent” is uncommon French (frequency #57,760 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,760
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe assassiner.
| 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) |
Where “assassinent” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
assassinent is uncommon French at frequency #57,760 among 424,905 “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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Using “assassinent”
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-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.sa.sin\ (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.