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“rassemblé” and “rassembler” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#13,456
“rassemblé” frequency rank
#6,547
“rassembler” frequency rank
20003
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rassemblé rassembler
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de rassembler. Assembler de nouveau des personnes, des bêtes ou des choses qui étaient dispersées.

Same sound, different letters: rassemblé vs rassembler

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

9 ch
rassemblé
10 ch
rassembler

Ear matches; page differs - rassemblé and rassembler

This is the hard kind. rassemblé and rassembler are pronounced identically (\ʁa.sɑ̃.ble\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20003, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rassemblé is recorded at frequency rank #13,456, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁa.sɑ̃.ble\. rassembler is at rank #6,547, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁa.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 20003, this pair ranks #370,415 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of rassemblé vs rassembler

Shared letters: abelmrs. Private to "rassemblé": é. Private to "rassembler": -.

"rassemblé" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCCV  ·  "rassembler" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rassemblerarssembler · rasembler · rasesmbler · rassebmler · rassembbler · rassembelr · rassemblerr · rassembller

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "rassemblé" and "rassembler" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁa.sɑ̃.ble\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "rassemblé" or "rassembler" show up more?
"rassembler" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,547 in our French list, against #13,456 for "rassemblé". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"rassemblé" and "rassembler" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rassemblé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rassembler" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #370,415 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rassemblé" and "rassembler" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rassembla vs rassemblé". 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 #370,415 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