assessment
/əˈsɛsmənt/noun
assessment is spelled A-S-S-E-S-S-M-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is assesment: about 2,250 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Assessment is a noun meaning “The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed”. The plural of assessment is assessments.
How many letters and syllables are in assessment?
| Letters | 10: A-S-S-E-S-S-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 29 times per million words; the 3,218th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, assesment, about 2,250 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell assessment?
Assessment is spelled A-S-S-E-S-S-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for assessment in either form.
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 assessment?
Assessment appears 29 times per million words in written English, the 3,218th 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 assessment?
- /əˈsɛsmənt/
Assessment 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-assessment.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of assessment
- assessments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does assessment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.
- 2
An appraisal or evaluation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate assessment?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of assessment: assmt..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Assessment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | évaluation , estimation |
| German | Bewertung, Schätzung , Begutachtung |
| Portuguese | contabilização , avaliação |
| Spanish | evaluación, expertización, expertizaje , valoración |
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 assessment come from?
From assess + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).