assises

\a.siz\

/\a.siz\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « assises » 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).

assises vs assist
71% similar
assises vs assiste
71% similar
assises vs assista
71% similar

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

Key facts for assises
PropertyValue
Headwordassises
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.siz\
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,585
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « assises »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).assisesse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « allés » (#6,584), « avancées » (#6,586), « airs » (#6,583). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « assises » est au #6,585. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Loi ; institution juridique.
  2. 2
    Cour d’assises.
  3. 3
    Session d'une telle cour.
  4. 4
    Congrès, conférence.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les Assises de Jérusalem.
  2. 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.

asises1asisses2assiess2assisess1assisses1asssies2sasises2
Edit distance from "assises"

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 "assises"?
"assises" is spelled A-S-S-I-S-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.siz\.
What does "assises" mean?
As a noun, "assises" means: Loi ; institution juridique.
What words are commonly confused with "assises"?
"assises" is commonly confused with "assist", "assiste", "assista". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "assises"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "assises" is \a.siz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "assises" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list