assises
\a.siz\
The verdict
“assises” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,585. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,585
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Loi ; institution juridique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assises · assises · French
assises · rank #6,585 · 7 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,585
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allés
Nearest frequency peer: allés (-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 « assises »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- agglomérati…
agglomération
93,419 corpus weight
- airs
airs
93,418 corpus weight
- allés
allés
93,417 corpus weight
- assises
assises
93,416 corpus weight
- avancées
avancées
93,415 corpus weight
- aviation
aviation
93,414 corpus weight
What this shows « assises » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assises |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.siz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « assises »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around assises (IPA \a.siz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,585 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for assises, with forms such as "asises", "asisses", and "assiess". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "assist", "assiste", "assista", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is assises, spelled A-S-S-I-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Loi ; institution juridique.
- 2Cour d’assises.
- 3Session d'une telle cour.
- 4Congrès, conférence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how assises appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Assises de Jérusalem.
Ce petit homme maigre, à cheveux et à barbe grêles, à figure étiolée, pâlotte, plus fatiguée que ridée, les yeux à paupières légèrement rougies et harnachées de lunettes, de piètre allure et de plus piètre maintien, réalisait le type que chacun se dessine d’un homme traduit aux assises pour attentat aux mœurs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asises
- asisses
- assiess
- assisess
- assisses
- asssies
- sasises
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assises - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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