assommant
\a.sɔ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“assommant” is uncommon French (frequency #82,686 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,686
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui assomme, au sens figuré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assommant · assommant · French
assommant · rank #82,686 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,686
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH asservie
Nearest frequency peer: asservie (-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 « assommant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aseptisée
aseptisée
17,318 corpus weight
- ashes
ashes
17,317 corpus weight
- asservie
asservie
17,316 corpus weight
- assommant
assommant
17,315 corpus weight
- astheure
astheure
17,314 corpus weight
- atolls
atolls
17,313 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « assommant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assommant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.sɔ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #82,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « assommant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
assommant is uncommon French at frequency #82,686 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.sɔ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui assomme, au sens figuré.".
Zero misspellings are on record for assommant in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is assommant, spelled A-S-S-O-M-M-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui assomme, au sens figuré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how assommant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et où t'en iras-tu, mon pauvre Charencey, pour esquiver l'ennui? dit un officier […] : ce vieux monde est partout le même, c'est-à-dire assommant.
Le commissaire.— Zut ! à la fin ! C’est assommant ! On ne peut pas être tranquille une minute, avec vous !
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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