assort

Other forms of assort

past tense

assorted·

present participle

assorting·

third person

assorts·

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 assort

What does assort mean?

assort means "keep company with; hang out with". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in assort?

assort has 2 syllables: as-sort. The stress falls on "sort". In IPA it is /əˈsɔɹt/.

What is another word for assort?

Close synonyms include consort, associate, affiliate, classify, class. 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 assort a common word?

assort 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.

What rhymes with assort?

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