assèchent
\a.sɛʃ\
The verdict
“assèchent” is uncommon French (frequency #93,500 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,500
- 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 assécher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assechent · assèchent · French
assèchent · rank #93,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,500
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assaisonne
Nearest frequency peer: assaisonne (-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 « assèchent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- asociaux
asociaux
6,504 corpus weight
- assaisonne
assaisonne
6,502 corpus weight
- assèchent
assèchent
6,501 corpus weight
- Athénaïs
Athénaïs
6,500 corpus weight
- athérome
athérome
6,499 corpus weight
- attelles
attelles
6,498 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « assèchent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assèchent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.sɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « assèchent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
assèchent is uncommon French at frequency #93,500 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.sɛʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for assèchent in our index, 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 no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is assèchent, spelled A-S-S-È-C-H-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe assécher.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe assécher.
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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