asseyait
\a.sɛ.jɛ\
The verdict
“asseyait” is uncommon French (frequency #54,410 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,410
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe asseoir (ou assoir).
Corpus desk
Index FR-asseyait · asseyait · French
asseyait · rank #54,410 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,410
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aspérités
Nearest frequency peer: aspérités (-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 « asseyait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aryen
aryen
45,593 corpus weight
- aspérités
aspérités
45,592 corpus weight
- asseyait
asseyait
45,591 corpus weight
- atomic
atomic
45,590 corpus weight
- attrapez
attrapez
45,589 corpus weight
- Auclair
Auclair
45,588 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « asseyait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asseyait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.sɛ.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « asseyait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
asseyait is uncommon French at frequency #54,410 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.sɛ.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe asseoir (ou assoir).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for asseyait, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 asseyait, spelled A-S-S-E-Y-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du verbe asseoir (ou assoir).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how asseyait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Seul, à ses moments de flâne, Roubaud enjambait la fenêtre ; puis, filant le long du chéneau, il allait jusqu’au bout, montait la pente de zinc, s’asseyait en haut du pignon, au-dessus du cours Napoléon ; et là, enfin, il fumait sa pipe, en plein ciel, dominant la ville étalée à ses pieds, les bassins plantés de la haute futaie des mâts, la mer immense, d…
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).