assaut
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assaut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.so\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Attaque pour enlever de vive force.
- 2Attaque pour enlever de vive force.
- 3Action de tout ce qui assaille, attaque avec violence, met en péril.
- 4Sollicitation vive et pressante.
- 5Simulacre de duel où l’on ne se bat qu’avec des armes (fleurets ou épées) mouchetées.
- 6Faire assaut de : lutter à qui l’emportera.
- 7Simulacre 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"
Frequency rank: #5,008 in French
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