assembly
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "assembly", 8-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "assembly" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "assembly" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
assembly is aEnglishnoun. It means: A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device. Pronounced /əˈsɛmb.lɪ/. It ranks #2,425 in English word frequency. Often confused with assemble and assembled.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assembly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈsɛmb.lɪ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for assembly is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈsɛmb.lɪ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,425 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for assembly, with forms such as "asembly", "asesmbly", and "assebmly". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "assemble", "assembled", "assembler", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble + -y. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is assembly, spelled A-S-S-E-M-B-L-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
- 2The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
- 3A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
- 4A legislative body.
- 5A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
- 6Ellipsis of assembly language.
- 7A building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.
Etymology
From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble + -y.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asembly,asesmbly,assebmly,assembbly,assemblly,assemblyy,assembyl,assemlby,assemmbly,assmebly,sasembly
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Misspelling Variants of "assembly"
Frequency rank: #2,425 in English
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