assouplir
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,813
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
assouplir is aFrenchverb. It means: Rendre souple. Pronounced \a.su.pliʁ\. Often confused with assouvir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assouplir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.su.pliʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for assouplir is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.su.pliʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,813 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for assouplir, with forms such as "asosuplir", "asouplir", and "assopulir". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "assouvir", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is assouplir, spelled A-S-S-O-U-P-L-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rendre souple.
- 2Habituer un cheval à se mouvoir avec souplesse.
- 3Donner de la souplesse dans les manières.
- 4Devenir souple.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asosuplir,asouplir,assopulir,assoulpir,assoupilr,assouplirr,assoupllir,assouplri,assoupplir,assuoplir,sasouplir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for assouplir
Misspelling Variants of "assouplir"
Frequency rank: #35,813 in French
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