assignment
a·ssign·ment/əˈsaɪn.mənt/noun
assignment is spelled A-S-S-I-G-N-M-E-N-T, 3 syllables: a·ssign·ment. The wrong spelling people search most is assigment: about 200 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 39 of all searches for the word. Assignment is a noun meaning “The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks”. The plural of assignment is assignments.
How many letters and syllables are in assignment?
| Letters | 10: A-S-S-I-G-N-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: a·ssign·ment |
| In writing | 15 times per million words; the 5,309th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, assigment, about 200 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 assignment?
Assignment is spelled A-S-S-I-G-N-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 39 of the searches for assignment 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 assignment?
Assignment appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,309th 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 assignment?
- /əˈsaɪn.mənt/
Assignment has 3 syllables, split a·ssign·ment in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-assignment.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of assignment
- assignments plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does assignment mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.
- 2
The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.
- 3
The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
- 4
An assigned task.
The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.
- 5
A position to which one is assigned.
Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.
- 6
A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.
- 7
A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.
- 8
A document that effects this transfer.
Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate assignment?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of assignment: asgmt.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Assignment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | affectation , tâche, mission , devoir |
| German | Zuweisung, Übertragung , Aufgabe, Aufgabengebiet, Arbeit , Zuordnung |
| Portuguese | designação , tarefa, trabalho , atribuição , posição |
| Spanish | asignación , tarea, encargo, encomienda |
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 assignment come from?
From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).