asymmetric
/ˌeɪ.səˈmɛt.ɹɪk/adjective
asymmetric is spelled A-S-Y-M-M-E-T-R-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is assymetric: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Asymmetric is an adjective meaning “Not symmetric”.
How many letters and syllables are in asymmetric?
| Letters | 10: A-S-Y-M-M-E-T-R-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 24,170th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, assymetric, about 120 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell asymmetric?
Asymmetric is spelled A-S-Y-M-M-E-T-R-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for asymmetric 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 asymmetric?
Asymmetric appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th 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 asymmetric?
- US /ˌeɪ.səˈmɛt.ɹɪk/
- Australia /ˌæɪ.səˈmet.ɹɪk/
- /ˌæɪ.səˈmet.ɹək/
Asymmetric has 4 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-asymmetric.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with asymmetric?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as asymmetric from its last stressed vowel (/ɛtɹɪk/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of asymmetric
- more asymmetric comparative
- most asymmetric superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does asymmetric mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Not symmetric.
an asymmetric shape
- 2
Not involving a mutual exchange of keys between the sender and receiver.
- 3
Of a relation R on a set S: having the property that for any two elements of S (not necessarily distinct), at least one is not related to the other via R.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Asymmetric in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense not symmetric:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | asymétrique |
| German | asymmetrisch |
| Portuguese | assimétrico |
| Spanish | asimétrico |
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 asymmetric come from?
From a- + symmetric, as Ancient Greek ἀσυμμετρία (asummetría, “disproportion, deformity”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).