assonance
French, noun
assonance is spelled A-S-S-O-N-A-N-C-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 119,721st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Assonance is a French feminine noun meaning “assonance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of assonancer. With an accent, assonancé is a different word: “past participle of assonancer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Figure de style qui consiste en la répétition d'un son vocalique”.
What does assonance mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineassonance
Near-synonym: consonance
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of assonancer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Figure de style qui consiste en la répétition d'un son vocalique. 2. Harmonie. 3. Ressemblance imparfaite de son dans la terminaison des mots.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of assonance
- assonances plural
- assonancée feminine
- assonancés masculine plural
- assonancées feminine plural
- assonnance obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to assonance
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is assonance in French?
assonance appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).