assistance

\a.sis.tɑ̃s\

/\a.sis.tɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“assistance” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,436. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,436
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Présence.

Corpus desk

Index FR-assistance · assistance · French

assistance · rank #3,436 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,436
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH apprentissage

Nearest frequency peer: apprentissage (-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 « assistance »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « assistance » 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).

assistance vs assistant
80% similar
assistance vs assistante
90% similar
assistance vs assistants
80% similar

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

Key facts for assistance
PropertyValue
Headwordassistance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.sis.tɑ̃s\
Letters10
Frequency rank#3,436
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « assistance »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.assistancese 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 « apprentissage » (#3,435), « amoureuse » (#3,434), « attentat » (#3,438). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « assistance » est au #3,436. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around assistance (IPA \a.sis.tɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,436 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for assistance, with forms such as "asisstance", "asistance", and "assisatnce". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "assistant", "assistante", "assistants", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 assistance, spelled A-S-S-I-S-T-A-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Présence.
  2. 2
    Public ou ensemble des personnes assemblées en un lieu.
  3. 3
    Aide, secours.
  4. 4
    Dans quelques ordres religieux, état ou province où se trouve celui qui assiste le général ou le provincial de son ordre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. On lui donne tant pour son droit d’assistance, pour son assistance. Les chanoines ont un droit d’assistance aux enterrements, aux offices, etc.
  2. Les musiciens tirèrent de leurs instruments un air brutal et voluptueux qui, aussitôt, pénétra l'assistance d'une fiévreuse pâmoison.

Antonyms

non-assistance

This word in other languages

audience(English)asistencia(Español)Beistand(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asisstance
  • asistance
  • assisatnce
  • assisstance
  • assistacne
  • assistancce
  • assistanec
  • assistannce
  • assistnace
  • assisttance
  • assitsance
  • asssitance
  • sasistance

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

asisstance2asistance1assisatnce2assisstance1assistacne2assistancce1assistanec2assistannce1
Edit distance from "assistance"

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

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

équipement#3,430discipline#3,453identifier#3,462nationales#3,477

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

Barcelone13 variantsutilisent13 variantsdimension13 variantspréciser13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list