assommoir

\a.sɔ.mwaʁ\

/\a.sɔ.mwaʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“assommoir” is uncommon French (frequency #76,328 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#76,328
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arme qui sert à assommer : bâton garni, à l’une de ses extrémités, d’une balle de plomb enveloppée de ficelle, massue, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-assommoir · assommoir · French

assommoir · rank #76,328 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #76,328
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH assouplissant

Nearest frequency peer: assouplissant (+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 « assommoir »

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 « assommoir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for assommoir
PropertyValue
Headwordassommoir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.sɔ.mwaʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#76,328
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « assommoir » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).assommoirtombe 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: « assouplissant » (#76,329), « artes » (#76,326), « arrosages » (#76,325). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « assommoir » est au #76,328. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

assommoir is uncommon French at frequency #76,328 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.sɔ.mwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for assommoir in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is assommoir, spelled A-S-S-O-M-M-O-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Arme qui sert à assommer : bâton garni, à l’une de ses extrémités, d’une balle de plomb enveloppée de ficelle, massue, etc.
  2. 2
    Ouverture servant au défenseur à jeter des projectiles pour assommer son adversaire. Il s'agit généralement d'une ouverture placée dans une petite construction en encorbellement au dessus d'une porte. Bretèche.
  3. 3
    Sorte de piège que l’on tend à certaines bêtes telles que renards, blaireaux, etc., et qui est disposé de manière à les assommer lorsqu’elles s’y prennent.
  4. 4
    Débit de boissons où les gens du peuple s’assomment d’alcool, auberge de basse catégorie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. […], il rêve d’un châtiment exemplaire : un assommoir pour le bigle, une bille de bois qui lui cherrait de très haut en plein crâne; […].
  2. La victoire de Joe Biden n’a pas été le coup d’assommoir attendu, mais cela ne veut pas nécessairement dire qu’il ne pourra pas exercer les pleins pouvoirs de la présidence.

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 "assommoir"?
"assommoir" is spelled A-S-S-O-M-M-O-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.sɔ.mwaʁ\.
What does "assommoir" mean?
As a noun, "assommoir" means: Arme qui sert à assommer : bâton garni, à l’une de ses extrémités, d’une balle de plomb enveloppée de ficelle, massue, etc.
How do you pronounce "assommoir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "assommoir" is \a.sɔ.mwaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "assommoir" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list