assets

Other forms of assets

plural

assetses·

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 assets

What does assets mean?

assets means "anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company".

How many syllables are in assets?

assets has 2 syllables: as-sets. The stress falls on "as". In IPA it is /ˈæˌsɛts/.

Is assets a common word?

assets is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.