assombrissent

\a.sɔ̃.bʁis\

/\a.sɔ̃.bʁis\/ verb

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The verdict

“assombrissent” is uncommon French (frequency #95,559 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#95,559
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de assombrir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-assombrissent · assombrissent · French

assombrissent · rank #95,559 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #95,559
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH assyriennes

Nearest frequency peer: assyriennes (+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 « assombrissent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « assombrissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for assombrissent
PropertyValue
Headwordassombrissent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.sɔ̃.bʁis\
Letters13
Frequency rank#95,559
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « assombrissent » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.assombrissenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « assyriennes » (#95,560), « astronef » (#95,561), « Asensio » (#95,556). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « assombrissent » est au #95,559. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

assombrissent is uncommon French at frequency #95,559 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.sɔ̃.bʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for assombrissent in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 assombrissent, spelled A-S-S-O-M-B-R-I-S-S-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de assombrir.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif imparfait de assombrir.
  3. 3
    Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de assombrir.

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 "assombrissent"?
"assombrissent" is spelled A-S-S-O-M-B-R-I-S-S-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.sɔ̃.bʁis\.
What does "assombrissent" mean?
As a verb, "assombrissent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de assombrir.
How do you pronounce "assombrissent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "assombrissent" is \a.sɔ̃.bʁis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "assombrissent" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list