Definitions for assortment

assortment as·sort·ment

Spelling: [uh-sawrt-muh nt]
IPA: /əˈsɔrt mənt/

Assortment is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 896 anagrams from letters in assortment (aemnorsstt).

Definitions for assortment

noun

  1. the act of assorting; distribution; classification.
  2. a collection of various kinds of things; a mixed collection.

Origin of assortment

First recorded in 1605-15; assort + -ment

Examples for assortment

We have a shop close by, where you will find an assortment of all the articles that are most in request.

I examined the assortment in the case, counting a total of twenty-eight shirts.

With his hands he kept fumbling an assortment of clippings, memoranda, and copy.

Less than a month earlier, there was a planned “gathering of dissidents” featuring an assortment of Nazi-envy characters.

Fittingly, the latter portrait hangs in the kitchen beside an assortment of decorative dishware.

The crowd is an assortment of reporters, posse members, film students, and very skittish men sporting huge AOL headphones.

Behind glass doors it displayed an assortment of glasses, stacked tea cups; a small row of books; a bouquet of fake flowers.

The shopwoman displayed her assortment of cotillion objects.

When the "assortment" was weighed she made Lisa add some jelly and gherkins to it.

There are even electronics like iPhone and iPod docking stations and an assortment of pricey pens intended for the pontiff.

Word Value for assortment
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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