assiette
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,948
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
assiette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Manière d’être assis, sis ou placé, assise. Pronounced \a.sjɛt\. It ranks #5,948 in French word frequency. Often confused with assiste and assistée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assiette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sjɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for assiette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.sjɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,948 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for assiette, with forms such as "asiette", "asisette", and "asseitte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "assiste", "assistée", "assiettes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is assiette, spelled A-S-S-I-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Manière d’être assis, sis ou placé, assise.
- 2Situation du cavalier sur la selle.
- 3Situation d’un corps posé sur un autre, en sorte qu’il soit ferme et stable.
- 4Situation d’une maison, d’une ville, d’une forteresse.
- 5Emprise au sol d’un fonds, d’une servitude.
- 6État, disposition de l’esprit.
- 7Situation sociale.
- 8Fonds sur lequel une rente est assise, est assignée.
- 9Répartition des impôts, des contributions.
- 10Élément de vaisselle à fond plat sur laquelle chacun prend ou reçoit les mets.
- 11Assiettée ; contenu d’une assiette.
- 12Angle que fait l'axe longitudinal d'un aéronef avec le plan horizontal.
- 13Angle que fait l'axe longitudinal d'un bâtiment avec le plan horizontal.
- 14Matériaux utilisés par les doreurs comme sous couche avant la pose de la feuille d'or.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asiette,asisette,asseitte,assiete,assietet,assitete,sasiette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for assiette
Misspelling Variants of "assiette"
Frequency rank: #5,948 in French
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