Assouan
The verdict
“Assouan” is uncommon French (frequency #68,825 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,825
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d'Égypte située à environ 843 km au sud du Caire, sur la rive droite du Nil, près de la première cataracte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assouan · Assouan · French
Assouan · rank #68,825 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,825
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assoiffée
Nearest frequency peer: assoiffée (-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 « Assouan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aspirez
aspirez
31,179 corpus weight
- assaillie
assaillie
31,178 corpus weight
- assoiffée
assoiffée
31,177 corpus weight
- Assouan
Assouan
31,176 corpus weight
- assoupli
assoupli
31,175 corpus weight
- attitrée
attitrée
31,173 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Assouan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Assouan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Assouan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Assouan is uncommon French at frequency #68,825 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville d'Égypte située à environ 843 km au sud du Caire, sur la rive droite du Nil, près de la première cataracte.".
Assouan doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Assouan, spelled A-S-S-O-U-A-N.
Definition
- 1Ville d'Égypte située à environ 843 km au sud du Caire, sur la rive droite du Nil, près de la première cataracte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Assouan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le barrage d’Assouan.
Synonyms
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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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