Home › Words › A › assortassort/əˈsɔːt/assort means to sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.assort is pronounced /əˈsɔːt/.EtymologyMiddle French assortir.verbTo sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.e.g.“They appear […] no way assorted to those with whom they must associate.” — 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:To be of a kind with, to harmonise or match.To be associated with; to consort with.To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods.e.g.“to assort a cargo”Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.assorter 82% match — One who assorts, or arranges by class or category. vs assort →assortation 77% match — The act of assorting vs assort →assortative 74% match — Characterized by assorting. vs assort →reassort 69% match — To assort again vs assort →assortatively 67% match — In an assortative way. vs assort →unsort 66% match — To sort out; to resolve. vs assort →sorting 66% match — verbal noun of sort:; Ordering. vs assort →assortativeness 63% match — The quality or degree of being assortative. vs assort →