assignat
French, noun
assignat is spelled A-S-S-I-G-N-A-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 146,077th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Assignat is a French masculine noun meaning “assignat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, assignât is a different word: “third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of assigner”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Constitution ou assignation d’une rente sur un héritage qui demeure nommément affecté au paiement annuel de…”.
What does assignat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineassignat
verb
- 1
third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of assigner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Constitution ou assignation d’une rente sur un héritage qui demeure nommément affecté au paiement annuel de cette rente. 2. Papier-monnaie dont le paiement était assigné sur la vente des biens nationaux, émis pendant la Révolution française. 3. Billet de banque. 4. Toute espèce de papier-monnaie dont la valeur est dépréciée.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of assignat
- assignats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is assignat in French?
assignat appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).