assurance

Other forms of assurance

plural

assurances·

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 assurance

What does assurance mean?

assurance means "freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in assurance?

assurance has 3 syllables: as-sur-ance. The stress falls on "sur". In IPA it is /əˈʃʊɹəns/.

What is another word for assurance?

Close synonyms include self-assurance, confidence, self-confidence, authority, sureness. 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 assurance a common word?

assurance is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 assurance?

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