assommant

\a.sɔ.mɑ̃\

/\a.sɔ.mɑ̃\/ adj

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for assommant
PropertyValue
Headwordassommant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.sɔ.mɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#82,686
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « assommant » en français

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « asservie » (#82,685), « astheure » (#82,687), « ashes » (#82,684). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « assommant » est au #82,686. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Qui assomme, au sens figuré.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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.
  2. Le commissaire.— Zut ! à la fin ! C’est assommant ! On ne peut pas être tranquille une minute, avec vous !

Synonyms

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 "assommant"?
"assommant" is spelled A-S-S-O-M-M-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.sɔ.mɑ̃\.
What does "assommant" mean?
As an adjective, "assommant" means: Qui assomme, au sens figuré.
How do you pronounce "assommant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "assommant" is \a.sɔ.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "assommant" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list