assistent
\a.sist\
The verdict
“assistent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,533. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,533
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de assister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assistent · assistent · French
assistent · rank #21,533 · 12 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,533
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH artifices
Nearest frequency peer: artifices (-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 « assistent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- approvision…
approvisionner
78,471 corpus weight
- archéologue
archéologue
78,470 corpus weight
- artifices
artifices
78,469 corpus weight
- assistent
assistent
78,468 corpus weight
- astronomiqu…
astronomiques
78,467 corpus weight
- attende
attende
78,466 corpus weight
What this shows « assistent » 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 | assistent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.sist\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « assistent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around assistent (IPA \a.sist\), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,533 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for assistent, with forms such as "asisstent", "asistent", and "assisetnt". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "assister", "assistés", "assistez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is assistent, spelled A-S-S-I-S-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de assister.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de assister.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how assistent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Apparemment conçu pour que personne ne s’y attarde, sauf les chauffeurs-gardes du corps venus déposer et attendre leurs ministres qui assistent au Conseil ou à diverses autres réunions, ce hall ne comporte aucun véritable endroit pour s’asseoir, à l’exception de deux longues banquettes de bois peu invitantes et sur lesquelles traînent invariablement colis…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asisstent
- asistent
- assisetnt
- assisstent
- assistennt
- assistentt
- assistetn
- assistnet
- assisttent
- assitsent
- asssitent
- sasistent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assistent - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "assistent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).