assurer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,019
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
assurer is aFrenchverb. It means: Rendre stable. Pronounced \a.sy.ʁe\. It ranks #1,019 in French word frequency. Often confused with assurez and assures.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assurer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.sy.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for assurer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.sy.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,019 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 20 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for assurer, with forms such as "assruer", "assuerr", and "assurerr". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "assurez", "assures", "assureur", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is assurer, spelled A-S-S-U-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rendre stable.
- 2Prendre une contenance, un maintien ou un visage ferme.
- 3Garantir la réalisation ou le bon fonctionnement. — Note d’usage : Il est suivi de la préposition de.
- 4Accoutumer un cheval à souffrir le mors.
- 5Arborer le pavillon de sa nation en tirant un coup de canon.
- 6Rendre une chose sûre.
- 7Garantir un droit, faire qu’il ne périclite pas.
- 8Garantir, par un acte, la propriété d’un bien à quelqu’un, pour qu’il en jouisse après la mort du donateur.
- 9Procurer d’une façon certaine et durable.
- 10Garantir ou faire garantir par un contrat d’assurance ; contracter une assurance.
- 11Engager fortement quelqu’un à regarder une chose comme certaine, à y croire.
- 12En escalade, garantir que son coéquipier sera bien encordé en cas de chute.
- 13Affirmer ou certifier une chose ; prétendre avec assurance.
- 14Rendre certain d’une chose.
- 15Être à la hauteur.
- 16(Avec les prépositions Dans et En); Établir sa confiance.
- 17Se procurer la certitude d’un fait.
- 18Arrêter, emprisonner, en parlant de quelqu’un. — Note d’usage : Il est suivi de la préposition de.
- 19Se garantir la protection, le suffrage de quelqu’un dans les choses où l’on a besoin de lui. — Note d’usage : Il est suivi de la préposition de.
- 20Réserver, retenir une chose pour la rendre sûre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: assruer,assuerr,assurerr,assurre,assurrer,asurer,asusrer,sasurer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "assurer"
Frequency rank: #1,019 in French
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