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assembly

/əˈsɛmb.li/noun

assembly is spelled A-S-S-E-M-B-L-Y: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 41 times per million words in written English, the 2,438th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, assembly means “A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of assembly is assemblies.

How many letters and syllables are in assembly?

Letters8: A-S-S-E-M-B-L-Y
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing41 times per million words; the 2,438th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is assembly?

Assembly appears 41 times per million words in written English, the 2,438th 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 assembly?

  • UK /əˈsɛmb.lɪ/
  • US /əˈsɛmb.li/

Assembly has 3 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: En-us-assembly.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of assembly

  • assemblies plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does assembly mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.

    In order to change the bearing, you must first remove the gearbox assembly.

  2. 2

    The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.

    instructions for assembly

  3. 3

    A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.

    school assembly

  4. 4

    A legislative body.

    the General Assembly of the United Nations

  5. 5

    A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

  6. 6

    Ellipsis of assembly language.

  7. 7

    A 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.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate assembly?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of assembly: assy.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Assembly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchgroupe, bloc (set of pieces), assemblage (act of putting together), assemblée, rassemblement (congregation of people)
GermanBaugruppe (set of pieces), Versammlung (congregation of people)
Portugueseproduto (set of pieces), montagem (act of putting together), assembléia (congregation of people)
Spanishensamblaje (set of pieces), montaje (act of putting together), asamblea (congregation of people), ensamblador (short for assembly language – see also assembly…)

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 assembly come from?

From Middle English assemblee, from Anglo-Norman asemblee (Old French asemblee, French assemblée). By surface analysis, assemble + -y.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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