assign
as·sign/əˈsaɪn/verb, noun
assign is spelled A-S-S-I-G-N, 2 syllables: as·sign. The wrong spelling people search most is asign: about 260 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Assign is a verb meaning “To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose”.
How many letters and syllables are in assign?
| Letters | 6: A-S-S-I-G-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: as·sign |
| In writing | 4.6 times per million words; the 11,870th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, asign, about 260 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 assign?
Assign is spelled A-S-S-I-G-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for assign 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 assign?
Assign appears 4.6 times per million words in written English, the 11,870th 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 assign?
- /əˈsaɪn/
Assign has 2 syllables, split as·sign in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-assign.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of assign
- assigns present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- assigning participle, present
- assigned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does assign mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
to assign a day for trial
- 2
To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
to assign counsel for a prisoner
- 3
To allot or give (something) as a task.
- 4
To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
- 5
To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.
- 6
To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
- 7
To give (a value) to a variable.
We assign 100 to x.
noun
- 1
An assignee.
- 2
obsoleteA thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
- 3
obsoleteAn assignment or appointment.
- 4
obsoleteA design or purpose.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Assign in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | désigner , assigner , attribuer |
| German | zuweisen, zuteilen |
| Portuguese | designar, atribuir , nomear, indicar |
| Spanish | asignar , adscribir |
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 assign come from?
From Middle English assignen, from Old French assigner, asigner, from Latin assignō, from ad- + signō (“mark, sign”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).