assiette

/\a.sjɛt\/ noun

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.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of assiette in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  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.

This word in other languages

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"

asiette7asisette8asseitte8assiete7assietet8assitete8sasiette8
Misspelling Variants of "assiette"

Frequency rank: #5,948 in French

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?
"assiette" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.