Assouline

name

The verdict

“Assouline” is uncommon French (frequency #64,241 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,241
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-assouline · Assouline · French

Assouline · rank #64,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,241
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH assiègent

Nearest frequency peer: assiègent (-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 « Assouline »

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Assouline
PropertyValue
HeadwordAssouline
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters9
Frequency rank#64,241
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Assouline » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Assoulinetombe 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: « assiègent » (#64,240), « asynchrone » (#64,242), « attaqueront » (#64,244). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Assouline » est au #64,241. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Assouline is uncommon French at frequency #64,241 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Assouline has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Assouline, spelled A-S-S-O-U-L-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Au petit matin, les permanents du secteur non alimentaire s’installent avant les marchands ponctuels ; Marc Assouline et Nathalie Guillon font partie de la soixantaine de vendeurs permanents du marché ; Noëlle Navarrete est placière au marché de Rochefort depuis 2017 ; Yann Lannemajou encaisse les marchands non-permanents.
  2. Comme l’explique la commissaire générale de l’exposition Yaffa Assouline, c’est durant le règne de l’émir Muzaffar-Ed-Din (1860-1885) que l’art de la broderie d’or va y atteindre son apogée.

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 "Assouline"?
"Assouline" is spelled A-S-S-O-U-L-I-N-E.
What does "Assouline" mean?
As a proper noun, "Assouline" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Assouline" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Assouline", 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