asso

\a.so\

/\a.so\/ noun

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The verdict

“asso” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,446) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#19,446
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
2
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Association.

Corpus desk

Index FR-asso · asso · French

asso · rank #19,446 · 2 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,446
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 2 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH approximative

Nearest frequency peer: approximative (-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 « asso »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « asso » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

asso vs aus
50% similar
asso vs AVS
0% similar
asso vs auto
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for asso
PropertyValue
Headwordasso
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.so\
Letters4
Frequency rank#19,446
Misspellings tracked2
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « asso »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.assose place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « approximative » (#19,445), « astronomique » (#19,447), « appellations » (#19,444). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « asso » est au #19,446. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for asso is neighbouring look-alikes ("aus", "AVS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \a.so\. Frequency #19,446 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for asso, including "asos" and "saso". 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, "aus", "AVS", "auto", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 asso, spelled A-S-S-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Association.
  2. 2
    Association étudiante.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how asso appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. David Chauvet, juriste et membre fondateur de l’association, cadre ses troupes : « Pas de violence physique ni verbale. Si ça se corse, c’est l’asso qui prend en charge les frais. »
  2. Dans plusieurs villes, depuis quelques mois, la rupture est totale entre plusieurs asso féministes et lesbiennes, et certains groupes transactivistes.

Synonyms

assoceassociation

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • asos
  • saso

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of asso - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

asos2saso2
Edit distance from "asso"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "asso"?
"asso" is spelled A-S-S-O. The IPA pronunciation is \a.so\.
What does "asso" mean?
As a noun, "asso" means: Association.
What words are commonly confused with "asso"?
"asso" is commonly confused with "aus", "AVS", "auto". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "asso"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "asso" is \a.so\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "asso" come from?
"asso" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "asso", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

bali#19,452allô#19,439Bert#19,455Bonn#19,458

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list