assess

Other forms of assess

past tense

assessed·

present participle

assessing·

third person

assesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about assess

What does assess mean?

assess means "evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in assess?

assess has 2 syllables: as-sess. The stress falls on "sess". In IPA it is /əˈsɛs/.

What is another word for assess?

Close synonyms include measure, evaluate, valuate, appraise, value. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is assess a common word?

assess 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 assess?

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