rassurer
\ʁa.sy.ʁe\
The verdict
“rassurer” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,431. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,431
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Redonner l’assurance, rendre la confiance, la tranquillité, le sentiment de sécurité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rassurer · rassurer · French
rassurer · rank #6,431 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,431
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH racistes
Nearest frequency peer: racistes (-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 « rassurer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- quinzaine
quinzaine
93,573 corpus weight
- racistes
racistes
93,571 corpus weight
- rassurer
rassurer
93,570 corpus weight
- recommencer
recommencer
93,569 corpus weight
- reconnais
reconnais
93,568 corpus weight
- relief
relief
93,567 corpus weight
What this shows « rassurer » 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 | rassurer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.sy.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rassurer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around rassurer (IPA \ʁa.sy.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,431 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for rassurer, with forms such as "arssurer", "rassruer", and "rassuerr". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "rassurez", "rassurés", "rassuré", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rassurer, spelled R-A-S-S-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Redonner l’assurance, rendre la confiance, la tranquillité, le sentiment de sécurité.
- 2Affermir, rendre stable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rassurer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’intelligence avec laquelle ce Tourangeau raccommodait le trait cassé rassura le colonel comte d’Aiglemont, qui revint vers la portière en étendant ses bras comme pour détirer ses muscles endormis ; il bâilla, regarda le paysage, et posa la main sur le bras d’une jeune femme soigneusement enveloppée dans un vitchoura.
Le thérapeute doit rassurer la victime sur le fait qu’elle n’est plus seule, qu’elle est hors de danger, que ses réactions lors des violences sont normales.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arssurer
- rassruer
- rassuerr
- rassurerr
- rassurre
- rassurrer
- rasurer
- rasusrer
- rrassurer
- rsasurer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rassurer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rassurer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).