assaut

/\a.so\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,008

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

assaut is aFrenchnoun. It means: Attaque pour enlever de vive force. Pronounced \a.so\. It ranks #5,008 in French word frequency. Often confused with assit and asset.

Key facts for assaut
PropertyValue
Headwordassaut
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.so\
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,008
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of assaut in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for assaut is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.so\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,008 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for assaut, with forms such as "asasut", "asaut", and "assatu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "assit", "asset", "assoit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is assaut, spelled A-S-S-A-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Attaque pour enlever de vive force.
  2. 2
    Attaque pour enlever de vive force.
  3. 3
    Action de tout ce qui assaille, attaque avec violence, met en péril.
  4. 4
    Sollicitation vive et pressante.
  5. 5
    Simulacre de duel où l’on ne se bat qu’avec des armes (fleurets ou épées) mouchetées.
  6. 6
    Faire assaut de : lutter à qui l’emportera.
  7. 7
    Simulacre de combat, particulièrement pratiqué dans les catégories jeunes.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: asasut,asaut,assatu,assautt,assuat,sasaut

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for assaut

Misspelling Variants of "assaut"

asasut6asaut5assatu6assautt7assuat6sasaut6
Misspelling Variants of "assaut"

Frequency rank: #5,008 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "assaut"?
"assaut" is spelled A-S-S-A-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.so\.
What does "assaut" mean?
As a noun, "assaut" means: Attaque pour enlever de vive force.
What words are commonly confused with "assaut"?
"assaut" is commonly confused with "assit", "asset", "assoit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "assaut"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "assaut" is \a.so\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "assaut" come from?
"assaut" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.