assassinate

Questions about assassinate

What does assassinate mean?

assassinate means "murder; especially of socially prominent persons". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in assassinate?

assassinate has 4 syllables: as-sas-si-nate. The stress falls on "sas". In IPA it is /əˈsæsəˌneɪt/.

Is assassinate a common word?

assassinate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with assassinate?

52 words rhyme with assassinate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.