assortment

1. 1.

   a collection containing a variety of sorts of things

   “a great assortment of cars was on display”

   “he had a variety of disorders”

   “a veritable smorgasbord of religions”

   Synonymsmixturemixed bagmiscellanymiscellaneavarietysalmagundismorgasbordpotpourrimotley

   Broadercollection

   Narrowergrab bagwitches' brewrangeselectionodds and endsalphabet soupsampler
2. 2.

   the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

   Synonymscategorizationcategorisationclassificationcompartmentalizationcompartmentalisation

   Broadergrouping

   Narrowerindexingreclassificationrelegationstratificationtaxonomytypology

Other forms of assortment

plural

assortments·

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 assortment

What does assortment mean?

assortment means "a collection containing a variety of sorts of things". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in assortment?

assortment has 3 syllables: as-sort-ment. The stress falls on "sort". In IPA it is /əˈsɔɹtmənt/.

What is another word for assortment?

Close synonyms include mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety. 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 assortment a common word?

assortment is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.