assouvir
\a.su.viʁ\
The verdict
“assouvir” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,866. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,866
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rassasier pleinement, délivrer d’une faim vorace, contenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-assouvir · assouvir · French
assouvir · rank #24,866 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,866
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH asperger
Nearest frequency peer: asperger (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « assouvir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- arf
arf
75,139 corpus weight
- around
around
75,137 corpus weight
- asperger
asperger
75,136 corpus weight
- assouvir
assouvir
75,135 corpus weight
- aveuglément
aveuglément
75,133 corpus weight
- background
background
75,132 corpus weight
What this shows « assouvir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assouvir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.su.viʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,866 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « assouvir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around assouvir (IPA \a.su.viʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,866 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for assouvir, with forms such as "asosuvir", "asouvir", and "assouivr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "assoir", "asservir", "assouplir", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is assouvir, spelled A-S-S-O-U-V-I-R.
Definition
- 1Rassasier pleinement, délivrer d’une faim vorace, contenter.
- 2Satisfaire un besoin, une envie.
- 3Satisfaire une passion violente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how assouvir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès ce temps, la lecture était devenue chez Louis une espèce de faim que rien ne pouvait assouvir: il dévorait des livres de tout genre, et se repaissait indistinctement d'œuvres religieuses, d'histoire, de philosophie et de physique.
Il ne fait que punir, traitant des peccadilles avec une sévérité démesurée, poursuivant des enfants innocents pour les fautes de leurs parents, châtiant des populations blanches comme neige pour les torts de leurs dirigeants, s'abaissant même, pour assouvir Sa soif de vengeance, à verser le sang d'inoffensifs agneaux, veaux, moutons et bœufs, en punition…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asosuvir
- asouvir
- assouivr
- assouvirr
- assouvri
- assouvvir
- assovuir
- assuovir
- sasouvir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assouvir - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).