assembléevsassemblerWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: assemblée is a noun, assembler is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“assemblée” is a noun and “assembler” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#914
“assemblée” frequency rank
#17,878
“assembler” frequency rank
18792
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature assemblée assembler
Definition Réunion d’un certain nombre de personnes dans un même lieu. Mettre ensemble.

Same sound, different letters: assemblée vs assembler

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.

9 ch
assemblée
9 ch
assembler

Homophone desk: assemblée vs assembler

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: assemblée and assembler carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.sɑ̃.ble\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18792, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

assemblée is recorded at frequency rank #914, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.sɑ̃.ble\. assembler is at rank #17,878, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.sɑ̃.ble\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 18792, this pair ranks #376,559 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of assemblée vs assembler

Shared letters: abelms. Private to "assemblée": é. Private to "assembler": r.

"assemblée" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCCVV  ·  "assembler" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • assemblerasembler · asesmbler · assebmler · assembbler · assembelr · assemblerr · assembller · assemblre

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "assemblée" and "assembler" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "assemblée" is a noun and "assembler" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "assemblée" or "assembler"?
"assemblée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #914 in our French list, against #17,878 for "assembler". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "assemblée" / "assembler". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "assemblée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "assembler" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #376,559 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "assemblée" and "assembler" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "assemblent vs assembler". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #376,559 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list