assis

\a.si\

/\a.si\/ adj

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The verdict

“assis” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,237) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#3,237
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Placé sur son séant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-assis · assis · French

assis · rank #3,237 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,237
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH applique

Nearest frequency peer: applique (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « assis »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « assis » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

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).

assis vs avis
60% similar
assis vs asso
60% similar
assis vs asti
60% similar

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

Key facts for assis
PropertyValue
Headwordassis
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.si\
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,237
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « assis »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).assisse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « applique » (#3,236), « battu » (#3,238), « anglaise » (#3,235). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « assis » est au #3,237. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for assis is neighbouring look-alikes ("avis", "asso", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \a.si\. Frequency #3,237 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for assis, with forms such as "asiss", "assiss", and "asssi". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "avis", "asso", "asti", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is assis, spelled A-S-S-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Placé sur son séant.
  2. 2
    Destiné à faire asseoir.
  3. 3
    Solidement établi.
  4. 4
    Se dit d'un quadrupède représenté le postérieur à terre, les pattes arrière repliées, les antérieures éventuellement posées au sol.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il est assis.
  2. Un vestibule étroit séparait la cuisine de la salle où Mme Aubain se tenait tout le long du jour, assise près de la croisée dans un fauteuil de paille.

Antonyms

deboutallongé

This word in other languages

seated(English)sentado(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asiss
  • assiss
  • asssi
  • sasis

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assis - 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.

asiss2assiss1asssi2sasis2
Edit distance from "assis"

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 "assis"?
"assis" is spelled A-S-S-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.si\.
What does "assis" mean?
As an adjective, "assis" means: Placé sur son séant.
What words are commonly confused with "assis"?
"assis" is commonly confused with "avis", "asso", "asti". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "assis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "assis" is \a.si\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "assis" come from?
"assis" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

battu#3,238écart#3,232copie#3,245envoi#3,252

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list