assiste
\a.sist\
The verdict
“assiste” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,784. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,784
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe assister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assiste · assiste · French
assiste · rank #7,784 · 8 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,784
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assurent
Nearest frequency peer: assurent (+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 « assiste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- adresses
adresses
92,220 corpus weight
- Alfred
Alfred
92,219 corpus weight
- assiste
assiste
92,217 corpus weight
- assurent
assurent
92,216 corpus weight
- avoué
avoué
92,215 corpus weight
- bagages
bagages
92,214 corpus weight
What this shows « assiste » 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 | assiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.sist\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « assiste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around assiste (IPA \a.sist\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,784 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for assiste, with forms such as "asisste", "asiste", and "assiset". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "assit", "autiste", "assister", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is assiste, spelled A-S-S-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe assister.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe assister.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe assister.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe assister.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe assister.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how assiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour me « décafarder » et changer un peu, j’assiste à un concert donné et exécuté par les plus anciens au camp.
Dans ces maïs désépiés, on n’assiste pas à la silicification de la tige, comme dans les plants ordinaires, d’où une meilleure qualité pour la pâte à papier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asisste
- asiste
- assiset
- assisste
- assistte
- assitse
- asssite
- sasiste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assiste - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "assiste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).