assistais
\a.sis.tɛ\
The verdict
“assistais” is uncommon French (frequency #75,416 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,416
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe assister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assistais · assistais · French
assistais · rank #75,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,416
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ASSEDIC
Nearest frequency peer: ASSEDIC (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « assistais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arriviez
arriviez
24,588 corpus weight
- arrêteras
arrêteras
24,587 corpus weight
- ASSEDIC
ASSEDIC
24,586 corpus weight
- assistais
assistais
24,585 corpus weight
- asymptomati…
asymptomatiques
24,584 corpus weight
- atar
atar
24,583 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « assistais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assistais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.sis.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « assistais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
assistais is uncommon French at frequency #75,416 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.sis.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for assistais, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is assistais, spelled A-S-S-I-S-T-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe assister.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe assister.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).