assommer
\a.sɔ.me\
The verdict
“assommer” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,251. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,251
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étourdir, voire tuer, au moyen d’une arme pesante ou par un coup violemment assené.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assommer · assommer · French
assommer · rank #36,251 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,251
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arrêterait
Nearest frequency peer: arrêterait (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « assommer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Arkham
Arkham
63,753 corpus weight
- arrachées
arrachées
63,752 corpus weight
- arrêterait
arrêterait
63,751 corpus weight
- assommer
assommer
63,750 corpus weight
- Athos
Athos
63,748 corpus weight
- atmosphères
atmosphères
63,747 corpus weight
What this shows « assommer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assommer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.sɔ.me\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « assommer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around assommer (IPA \a.sɔ.me\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,251 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for assommer, with forms such as "asommer", "asosmmer", and "assmomer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "assumer", "assomme", "associer", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is assommer, spelled A-S-S-O-M-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Étourdir, voire tuer, au moyen d’une arme pesante ou par un coup violemment assené.
- 2Battre avec excès.
- 3Incommoder et importuner ou accabler beaucoup.
- 4Endormir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how assommer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai ramené au bien et au repentir des misérables qui, un soir, au détour d’un chemin, avaient voulu m’assommer à coups de hache.
Elles restèrent très dignes, mais elles jubilaient ; même la mère de Marie Chazottes qu’une belle-sœur menait sous le bras ; Anselmie, sans aucun doute, avec un livre de messe de quoi assommer un bœuf.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asommer
- asosmmer
- assmomer
- assomemr
- assomer
- assommerr
- assommre
- sasommer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assommer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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