asseyais
\a.sɛ.jɛ\
The verdict
“asseyais” is uncommon French (frequency #98,753 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,753
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe asseoir (ou assoir).
Corpus desk
Index FR-asseyais · asseyais · French
asseyais · rank #98,753 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,753
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH asexuée
Nearest frequency peer: asexuée (-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 « asseyais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arrivâmes
arrivâmes
1,252 corpus weight
- asexuée
asexuée
1,249 corpus weight
- asseyais
asseyais
1,248 corpus weight
- assiégea
assiégea
1,247 corpus weight
- associaient
associaient
1,246 corpus weight
- assouplies
assouplies
1,245 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « asseyais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asseyais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.sɛ.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « asseyais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
asseyais is uncommon French at frequency #98,753 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.sɛ.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for asseyais in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is asseyais, spelled A-S-S-E-Y-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe asseoir (ou assoir).
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe asseoir (ou assoir).
Synonyms
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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