assoupissement
French, noun/a.su.pis.mɑ̃/
assoupissement is spelled A-S-S-O-U-P-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T (14 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 119,721st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Assoupissement is a French masculine noun meaning “drowsiness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “État d’une personne assoupie”.
What does assoupissement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedrowsiness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. État d’une personne assoupie. 2. Engourdissement, mise en sommeil. 3. Grande nonchalance, grande négligence pour ses devoirs, pour ses intérêts.
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 assoupissement
- assoupissements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce assoupissement?
- /a.su.pis.mɑ̃/
- \a.su.pis.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to assoupissement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is assoupissement in French?
assoupissement 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).