assistance
/əˈsɪs.təns/noun
assistance is spelled A-S-S-I-S-T-A-N-C-E. The wrong spelling people search most is assitance: about 390 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Assistance is a noun meaning “Aid; help; the act or result of assisting”. The plural of assistance is assistances.
How many letters and syllables are in assistance?
| Letters | 10: A-S-S-I-S-T-A-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 39 times per million words; the 2,523rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, assitance, about 390 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 assistance?
Assistance is spelled A-S-S-I-S-T-A-N-C-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for assistance 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 assistance?
Assistance appears 39 times per million words in written English, the 2,523rd 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 assistance?
- UK /əˈsɪs.təns/
Assistance 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: En-us-assistance.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of assistance
- assistances plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does assistance mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.
He asked for technical assistance with the computer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate assistance?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of assistance: ASP.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Assistance in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense aid; help; the act or result of assisting:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | assistance |
| German | Hilfe |
| Portuguese | assistência |
| Spanish | asistencia |
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 assistance come from?
From Middle English assistance, from Middle French assistance, from Medieval Latin assistentia, from Latin assistō (“to stand at”). By surface analysis, assist + -ance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).