assembly

\ə.ˈsɛm.bli\

/\ə.ˈsɛm.bli\/ noun

The verdict

“assembly” is uncommon French (frequency #56,424 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,424
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assemblage, mécanisme composé de plusieurs pièces, montage, voire accolement ou accouplement d'objets.

Corpus desk

Index FR-assembly · assembly · French

assembly · rank #56,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #56,424
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH assyrien

Nearest frequency peer: assyrien (+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 « assembly »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « assembly » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for assembly
PropertyValue
Headwordassembly
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ə.ˈsɛm.bli\
Letters8
Frequency rank#56,424
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « assembly » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).assemblytombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « assyrien » (#56,425), « astreint » (#56,426), « arythmie » (#56,421). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « assembly » est au #56,424. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

assembly is uncommon French at frequency #56,424 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ə.ˈsɛm.bli\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

assembly doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is assembly, spelled A-S-S-E-M-B-L-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Assemblage, mécanisme composé de plusieurs pièces, montage, voire accolement ou accouplement d'objets.
  2. 2
    Rassemblement, réunion, accumulation de personnes.
  3. 3
    Assemblée, assemblée politique.
  4. 4
    Assembly.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. An assembly line.
  2. An assembly of many people

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 "assembly"?
"assembly" is spelled A-S-S-E-M-B-L-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ə.ˈsɛm.bli\.
What does "assembly" mean?
As a noun, "assembly" means: Assemblage, mécanisme composé de plusieurs pièces, montage, voire accolement ou accouplement d'objets.
How do you pronounce "assembly"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "assembly" is \ə.ˈsɛm.bli\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "assembly" come from?
"assembly" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list