assistait
\a.sis.tɛ\
The verdict
“assistait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,905. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,905
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe assister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assistait · assistait · French
assistait · rank #30,905 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,905
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ascendance
Nearest frequency peer: ascendance (-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 « assistait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- architectur…
architecturaux
69,099 corpus weight
- arthrite
arthrite
69,098 corpus weight
- ascendance
ascendance
69,097 corpus weight
- assistait
assistait
69,096 corpus weight
- assistantes
assistantes
69,095 corpus weight
- assiégés
assiégés
69,094 corpus weight
What this shows « assistait » 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 | assistait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.sis.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « assistait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around assistait (IPA \a.sis.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,905 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe assister.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for assistait, with forms such as "asisstait", "asistait", and "assisatit". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "assistant", "assistent", "assistante", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is assistait, spelled A-S-S-I-S-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe assister.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how assistait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jean-Edouard, qui assistait à la scène, n’ouvrit pas la bouche pour le faire taire mais sa colère se déversa brutalement sur Abel, ce sinistre crétin, qui lapait sa soupe en bout de table et qui avait le culot de ricaner en bavouillant.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asisstait
- asistait
- assisatit
- assisstait
- assistaitt
- assistati
- assistiat
- assisttait
- assitsait
- asssitait
- sasistait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assistait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "assistait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).