assignment

Other forms of assignment

plural

assignments·

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 assignment

What does assignment mean?

assignment means "a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in assignment?

assignment has 3 syllables: as-sign-ment. The stress falls on "sign". In IPA it is /əˈsaɪnmənt/.

What is another word for assignment?

Close synonyms include duty assignment, assigning, grant, appointment, designation. 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 assignment a common word?

assignment 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.

What rhymes with assignment?

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