asseyant
\a.sɛ.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“asseyant” is uncommon French (frequency #55,754 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,754
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe asseoir (ou assoir).
Corpus desk
Index FR-asseyant · asseyant · French
asseyant · rank #55,754 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,754
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ascèse
Nearest frequency peer: ascèse (-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 « asseyant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arabica
arabica
44,250 corpus weight
- archanges
archanges
44,249 corpus weight
- ascèse
ascèse
44,248 corpus weight
- asseyant
asseyant
44,247 corpus weight
- attacha
attacha
44,246 corpus weight
- Aunis
Aunis
44,245 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « asseyant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asseyant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.sɛ.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « asseyant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
asseyant is uncommon French at frequency #55,754 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.sɛ.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe asseoir (ou assoir).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for asseyant, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is asseyant, spelled A-S-S-E-Y-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe asseoir (ou assoir).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how asseyant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je voudrais être ce petit jeune homme, dit le critique en s’asseyant et prenant le bout du houka.
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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