assiste

/\a.sist\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,784

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

assiste is aFrenchverb. It means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe assister. Pronounced \a.sist\. It ranks #7,784 in French word frequency. Often confused with assit and autiste.

Key facts for assiste
PropertyValue
Headwordassiste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.sist\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,784
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of assiste in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for assiste is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.sist\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,784 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for assiste, with forms such as "asisste", "asiste", and "assiset". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is assiste, spelled A-S-S-I-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe assister.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe assister.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe assister.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe assister.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe assister.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: asisste,asiste,assiset,assisste,assistte,assitse,asssite,sasiste

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for assiste

Misspelling Variants of "assiste"

asisste7asiste6assiset7assisste8assistte8assitse7asssite7sasiste7
Misspelling Variants of "assiste"

Frequency rank: #7,784 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "assiste"?
"assiste" is spelled A-S-S-I-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.sist\.
What does "assiste" mean?
As a verb, "assiste" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe assister.
What words are commonly confused with "assiste"?
"assiste" is commonly confused with "assit", "autiste", "assister". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "assiste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "assiste" is \a.sist\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "assiste" come from?
"assiste" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.