assignee
"assignee" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“assignee” is uncommon English (frequency #76,545 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,545
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One to whom a thing is assigned.
Corpus desk
Index EN-assignee · assignee · English
assignee · rank #76,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,545
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH arthroplasty
Nearest frequency peer: arthroplasty (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “assignee”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Arica
Arica
23,462 corpus weight
- armless
armless
23,461 corpus weight
- Artesia
Artesia
23,459 corpus weight
- arthroplasty
arthroplasty
23,458 corpus weight
- assignee
assignee
23,456 corpus weight
- auxin
auxin
23,451 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “assignee” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assignee |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “assignee” in English
Rare enough to double-check
assignee is uncommon English at frequency #76,545 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
assignee doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English assigne, from Old French assigné, equivalent to assign + -ee. The correct English form is assignee, spelled A-S-S-I-G-N-E-E.
Definition
- 1One to whom a thing is assigned.
- 2One to whom a right or property is being transferred.
- 3One who is appointed to act or speak in place of another; an agent.
Etymology
From Middle English assigne, from Old French assigné, equivalent to assign + -ee.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).