assassination
/əˌsæs.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/noun
assassination is spelled A-S-S-A-S-S-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is assosication: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Assassination is a noun meaning “The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain”. The plural of assassination is assassinations.
How many letters and syllables are in assassination?
| Letters | 13: A-S-S-A-S-S-I-N-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.6 times per million words; the 9,313th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, assosication, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell assassination?
Assassination is spelled A-S-S-A-S-S-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is assassination?
Assassination appears 6.6 times per million words in written English, the 9,313th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce assassination?
- US /əˌsæs.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
Assassination has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-assassination.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-assassination.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with assassination?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as assassination from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):
- situation
- association
- population
- administration
- operation
- organization
- application
- location
- generation
- foundation
- conversation
- investigation
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of assassination
- assassinations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does assassination mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain.
The assassination of the king occurred at night.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Assassination in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense murder:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | assassinat |
| German | Ermordung, Attentat, Meuchelmord, tödlicher Mordanschlag |
| Portuguese | assassinato |
| Spanish | magnicidio, sicariato |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does assassination come from?
From assassinate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).