assumer

\a.sy.me\

/\a.sy.me\/ verb

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The verdict

“assumer” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,466. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,466
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prendre pour soi un acte ou une réalité qui vient de soi et qui est difficile à accepter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-assumer · assumer · French

assumer · rank #4,466 · 8 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,466
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH bail

Nearest frequency peer: bail (+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 « assumer »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « assumer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

assumer vs assuré
57% similar
assumer vs assurer
86% similar
assumer vs assurée
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for assumer
PropertyValue
Headwordassumer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.sy.me\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,466
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « assumer »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).assumerse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bail » (#4,467), « banc » (#4,468), « AFP » (#4,463). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « assumer » est au #4,466. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around assumer (IPA \a.sy.me\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,466 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for assumer, with forms such as "assmuer", "assuemr", and "assumerr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "assuré", "assurer", "assurée", and more, 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. The correct French form is assumer, spelled A-S-S-U-M-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prendre pour soi un acte ou une réalité qui vient de soi et qui est difficile à accepter.
  2. 2
    Prendre en charge une responsabilité, une tâche, un état qui, normalement, revient à un autre.
  3. 3
    Se prendre en charge.
  4. 4
    Accepter pleinement de vivre avec une réalité qui nous touche plus ou moins durement mais dont on n'est pas responsable.
  5. 5
    Accepter sa condition.
  6. 6
    Présumer la validité de quelque chose.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. — Et qu’en pense le conseil d’administration ? — Ils voudraient que nous fassions porter le chapeau à l’un de nos sous-traitants et je dois me battre pour que nous assumions cette erreur dont nous sommes les seuls véritables responsables.
  2. J'assume être à la tête d’une majorité pro-nucléaire.

This word in other languages

assume(English)asumir(Español)übernehmen(Deutsch)assumir(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • assmuer
  • assuemr
  • assumerr
  • assummer
  • assumre
  • asumer
  • asusmer
  • sasumer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of assumer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

assmuer2assuemr2assumerr1assummer1assumre2asumer1asusmer2sasumer2
Edit distance from "assumer"

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 "assumer"?
"assumer" is spelled A-S-S-U-M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.sy.me\.
What does "assumer" mean?
As a verb, "assumer" means: Prendre pour soi un acte ou une réalité qui vient de soi et qui est difficile à accepter.
What words are commonly confused with "assumer"?
"assumer" is commonly confused with "assuré", "assurer", "assurée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "assumer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "assumer" is \a.sy.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "assumer" come from?
"assumer" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "assumer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

colonne#4,473voisine#4,455utilité#4,453devront#4,482

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

craint8 variantscésar8 variantsgâteau8 variantsparts8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list