assiègent
\a.sjɛʒ\
The verdict
“assiègent” is uncommon French (frequency #64,240 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,240
- 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 assiéger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assiegent · assiègent · French
assiègent · rank #64,240 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,240
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Assouline
Nearest frequency peer: Assouline (+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 « assiègent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aromatisée
aromatisée
35,766 corpus weight
- Asahi
Asahi
35,764 corpus weight
- assiègent
assiègent
35,761 corpus weight
- Assouline
Assouline
35,760 corpus weight
- asynchrone
asynchrone
35,759 corpus weight
- attaqueront
attaqueront
35,757 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « assiègent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assiègent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.sjɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « assiègent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
assiègent is uncommon French at frequency #64,240 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.sjɛʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for assiègent, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is assiègent, spelled A-S-S-I-È-G-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe assiéger.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe assiéger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how assiègent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le projecteur Tikino pourrait bien voler la vedette des Lunii et autres conteuses qui assiègent le pied des sapins depuis quelques années : s’il ajoute l’image au son, l’animation est suffisamment lente pour ne pas exciter les petits avant de filer au lit.
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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