assistive

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   giving assistance

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Questions about assistive

What does assistive mean?

assistive means "giving assistance".

How many syllables are in assistive?

assistive has 3 syllables and divides as as-si-stive under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is assistive a common word?

assistive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.