assimilatory
adjective
assimilatory is an adjective meaning “That tends to assimilate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-S-S-I-M-I-L-A-T-O-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does assimilatory mean?
adjective
- 1
That tends to assimilate
- 2
That tends to produce assimilation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of assimilatory
- more assimilatory comparative
- most assimilatory superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is assimilatory?
Assimilatory appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th 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).
Where does assimilatory come from?
From assimilate + -ory.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).