assiette

\a.sjɛt\

/\a.sjɛt\/ noun

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The verdict

“assiette” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,948. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,948
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manière d’être assis, sis ou placé, assise.

Corpus desk

Index FR-assiette · assiette · French

assiette · rank #5,948 · 7 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,948
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH artisans

Nearest frequency peer: artisans (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « assiette »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « assiette » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

assiette vs assiste
75% similar
assiette vs assistée
75% similar
assiette vs assiettes
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for assiette
PropertyValue
Headwordassiette
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.sjɛt\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,948
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « assiette »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.assiettese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « artisans » (#5,947), « audio » (#5,949), « amiral » (#5,946). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « assiette » est au #5,948. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around assiette (IPA \a.sjɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,948 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 14 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for assiette, with forms such as "asiette", "asisette", and "asseitte". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "assiste", "assistée", "assiettes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is assiette, spelled A-S-S-I-E-T-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Manière d’être assis, sis ou placé, assise.
  2. 2
    Situation du cavalier sur la selle.
  3. 3
    Situation d’un corps posé sur un autre, en sorte qu’il soit ferme et stable.
  4. 4
    Situation d’une maison, d’une ville, d’une forteresse.
  5. 5
    Emprise au sol d’un fonds, d’une servitude.
  6. 6
    État, disposition de l’esprit.
  7. 7
    Situation sociale.
  8. 8
    Fonds sur lequel une rente est assise, est assignée.
  9. 9
    Répartition des impôts, des contributions.
  10. 10
    Élément de vaisselle à fond plat sur laquelle chacun prend ou reçoit les mets.
  11. 11
    Assiettée ; contenu d’une assiette.
  12. 12
    Angle que fait l'axe longitudinal d'un aéronef avec le plan horizontal.
  13. 13
    Angle que fait l'axe longitudinal d'un bâtiment avec le plan horizontal.
  14. 14
    Matériaux utilisés par les doreurs comme sous couche avant la pose de la feuille d'or.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how assiette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ce malade ne peut trouver une bonne assiette.
  2. C’est un homme inquiet qui ne peut se tenir dans la même assiette.

This word in other languages

plate(English)plato(Español)Sitz(Deutsch)equilíbrio(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asiette
  • asisette
  • asseitte
  • assiete
  • assietet
  • assitete
  • sasiette

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assiette - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

asiette1asisette2asseitte2assiete1assietet2assitete2sasiette2
Edit distance from "assiette"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "assiette"?
"assiette" is spelled A-S-S-I-E-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.sjɛt\.
What does "assiette" mean?
As a noun, "assiette" means: Manière d’être assis, sis ou placé, assise.
What words are commonly confused with "assiette"?
"assiette" is commonly confused with "assiste", "assistée", "assiettes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "assiette"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "assiette" is \a.sjɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "assiette" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "assiette", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

artisans#5,947calculer#5,953cannabis#5,954échanger#5,940

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list