assaut

\a.so\

/\a.so\/ noun

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The verdict

“assaut” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,008. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,008
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attaque pour enlever de vive force.

Corpus desk

Index FR-assaut · assaut · French

assaut · rank #5,008 · 6 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,008
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH asile

Nearest frequency peer: asile (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « assaut »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « assaut » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

assaut vs assit
67% similar
assaut vs asset
67% similar
assaut vs assoit
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « assaut »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).assautse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « asile » (#5,007), « attaquant » (#5,009), « avancée » (#5,010). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « assaut » est au #5,008. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around assaut (IPA \a.so\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,008 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for assaut, with forms such as "asasut", "asaut", and "assatu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "assit", "asset", "assoit", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is assaut, spelled A-S-S-A-U-T.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how assaut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. — J’aime à vous voir dans ces dispositions, car la place sera assez difficile à enlever, pour que celui qui doit donner l’assaut, soit décidé à ne pas se ménager.
  2. Quant à la ville […], elle garde encore les traces du terrible assaut de Skobeleff en 1880, murailles démantelées, bastions en ruines…

This word in other languages

assault(English)asalto(Español)Anfall(Deutsch)agressão(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asasut
  • asaut
  • assatu
  • assautt
  • assuat
  • sasaut

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assaut - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

asasut2asaut1assatu2assautt1assuat2sasaut2
Edit distance from "assaut"

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.

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. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "assaut", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

canton#5,013troupe#5,000tendre#4,999tenait#4,998

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

asile6 variantsalice6 variantssols6 variantsroses6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list