asservsassezWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: asser is a noun, assez is an adverb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“asser” is a noun and “assez” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,606
“asser” frequency rank
#247
“assez” frequency rank
40853
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature asser assez
Definition Bâton, gaule, perche, barre, barreau. Suffisamment, d'une quantité adéquate, suffisante ou tolérable.

Letter map: asser vs assez

Shared letters muted; letters that set asser and assez apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. asser and assez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
asser
5 ch
assez

Role in the sentence - asser and assez

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: asser is anoun and assezanadverb. On the page they differ by a single letter - r in “asser” becomes z in “assez”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40853, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

asser is recorded at frequency rank #40,606, classified as anoun. assez is at rank #247, tagged as anadv, pronounced \a.se\.

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 40853, this pair ranks #237,420 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of asser vs assez

Shared letters: aes. Private to "asser": r. Private to "assez": z.

"asser" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC  ·  "assez" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • asseraser · asesr · asserr · assre · saser
  • assezasesz · asez · assezz · assze · sasez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "asser" and "assez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "asser" is a noun and "assez" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "asser" or "assez" show up more?
"assez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #247 in our French list, against #40,606 for "asser". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "asser" and "assez". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "asser" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "assez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #237,420 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "asser" and "assez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "asser vs astor". 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 #237,420 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