assombrir
\a.sɔ̃.bʁiʁ\
The verdict
“assombrir” is uncommon French (frequency #57,763 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,763
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre sombre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assombrir · assombrir · French
assombrir · rank #57,763 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,763
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Ast
Nearest frequency peer: Ast (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « assombrir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- asphyxier
asphyxier
42,242 corpus weight
- assassinent
assassinent
42,241 corpus weight
- assisteront
assisteront
42,240 corpus weight
- assombrir
assombrir
42,238 corpus weight
- Ast
Ast
42,237 corpus weight
- asticots
asticots
42,236 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « assombrir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assombrir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.sɔ̃.bʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « assombrir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
assombrir is uncommon French at frequency #57,763 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.sɔ̃.bʁiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for assombrir, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is assombrir, spelled A-S-S-O-M-B-R-I-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre sombre.
- 2Devenir sombre.
- 3Rendre triste, grave.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how assombrir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces arbres assombrissent notre maison. Les malheurs ont assombri son caractère.
Le ciel, très chargé, s’assombrissait de plus en plus.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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