assistance
French, noun/a.sis.tɑ̃s/
assistance is spelled A-S-S-I-S-T-A-N-C-E (10 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written French, the 3,448th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Assistance is a French feminine noun meaning “assistance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Présence”.
What does assistance mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineassistance
- 2
feminineaudience
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Présence. 2. Public ou ensemble des personnes assemblées en un lieu. 3. Aide, secours. 4. Dans quelques ordres religieux, état ou province où se trouve celui qui assiste le général ou le provincial de son ordre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of assistance
- assistances plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce assistance?
- /a.sis.tɑ̃s/
- \a.sis.tɑ̃s\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to assistance
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is assistance in French?
assistance appears 22 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).