assourdissement
French, noun/a.suʁ.dis.mɑ̃/
assourdissement is spelled A-S-S-O-U-R-D-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T (15 letters) and appears about once in every 66 million words in written French, the 255,834th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Assourdissement is a French masculine noun meaning “deafening” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’assourdir”.
What does assourdissement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedeafening
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’assourdir. 2. Résultat de cette action. 3. Processus de perte de la sonorité, en parlant d’un phone ou d’un phonème.
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 assourdissement
- assourdissements plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce assourdissement?
- /a.suʁ.dis.mɑ̃/
- \a.suʁ.dis.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is assourdissement in French?
assourdissement appears about once in every 66 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).