assistances
\a.sis.tɑ̃s\
The verdict
“assistances” is uncommon French (frequency #52,496 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,496
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de assistance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assistances · assistances · French
assistances · rank #52,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,496
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aslan
Nearest frequency peer: aslan (-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 « assistances »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- argentan
argentan
47,508 corpus weight
- argentées
argentées
47,507 corpus weight
- aslan
aslan
47,506 corpus weight
- assistances
assistances
47,505 corpus weight
- assumait
assumait
47,504 corpus weight
- athletics
athletics
47,503 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « assistances » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assistances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sis.tɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #52,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « assistances » en français
Rare enough to double-check
assistances is uncommon French at frequency #52,496 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.sis.tɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de assistance.".
assistances doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is assistances, spelled A-S-S-I-S-T-A-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de 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.
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