assit
\a.si\
The verdict
“assit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,424) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,424
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe asseoir (ou assoir).
Corpus desk
Index FR-assit · assit · French
assit · rank #34,424 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,424
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arrogants
Nearest frequency peer: arrogants (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « assit »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- ark
ark
65,580 corpus weight
- Arno
Arno
65,579 corpus weight
- arrogants
arrogants
65,578 corpus weight
- assit
assit
65,577 corpus weight
- assura
assura
65,576 corpus weight
- attardés
attardés
65,575 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « assit » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | assit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.si\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #34,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « assit »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for assit is neighbouring look-alikes ("asso", "asti", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \a.si\. Frequency #34,424 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe asseoir (ou assoir).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for assit, with forms such as "asist", "assitt", and "assti". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "asso", "asti", "aussi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is assit, spelled A-S-S-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe asseoir (ou assoir).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how assit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces paroles furent si bien musiquées, pour employer un mot du temps qui dépeint les mélodies de l’amour, que Charles IX prit Marie par la taille, l’enleva avec une force nerveuse qui le distinguait, l’assit sur ses genoux, et se frotta doucement le front aux boucles de cheveux que sa maîtresse avait si coquettement arrangées.
Jean, alors, après l’avoir allongé, la tête haute, s’assit sur le banc et fouetta le cheval, ramenant le moribond au grand trot, de peur qu’il ne lui passât entre les mains.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asist
- assitt
- assti
- sasit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assit - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).