assistants
\a.sis.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“assistants” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,994. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,994
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de assistant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assistants · assistants · French
assistants · rank #10,994 · 14 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,994
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arène
Nearest frequency peer: arène (-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 « assistants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- argile
argile
89,010 corpus weight
- Armand
Armand
89,009 corpus weight
- arène
arène
89,008 corpus weight
- assistants
assistants
89,007 corpus weight
- attrape
attrape
89,006 corpus weight
- autisme
autisme
89,005 corpus weight
What this shows « assistants » 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 | assistants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sis.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « assistants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around assistants (IPA \a.sis.tɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,994 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de assistant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for assistants, with forms such as "asisstants", "asistants", and "assisatnts". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "assistent", "assistons", "assistant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is assistants, spelled A-S-S-I-S-T-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de assistant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how assistants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelques assistants s’en indignèrent et protestèrent avec véhémence, mais une sœur excusa le coupable en déclarant que le confessionnal était « débéni ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asisstants
- asistants
- assisatnts
- assisstants
- assistannts
- assistanst
- assistantss
- assistantts
- assistatns
- assistnats
- assisttants
- assitsants
- asssitants
- sasistants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assistants - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).