Assistence or assistance?
Did you mean assistance? Here's the right spelling and how to remember it.
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Correct spelling: assistance. Misspelling: assistence.
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Memory tip
The ending is -ance, as in assistant: assist + ance.
Why people write “assistence”
The endings -ance and -ence sound identical in speech; this word takes -ance.
Spell-checkers catch the mistake in a document, but not in a handwritten note, a text message or a word game. Writing the word out a few times while saying the tricky part aloud is the quickest way to make assistance automatic.
Other misspellings of “assistance”
People also write “asistance”. Here is where each one goes wrong.
“asistance”
Correct spelling: assistance. Misspelling: asistance.
letters the misspelling gets wrong or leaves out letters that shouldn't be there
The misspelling “asistance” is only one letter off: it uses a single S where assistance has a double SS.
What does “assistance” mean?
assistance noun
- the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
“he gave me an assist with the housework”
- a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do
“visual aids in teaching”
- gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause
“economic assistance to depressed areas”
Synonyms:aid
Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Full dictionary entry
“Assistance” in a sentence
- Do you need any assistance?
- He gave me an assist with the housework.
- Visual aids in teaching.
- Economic assistance to depressed areas.
Is “assistance” a playable word?
12 points in Scrabble · 14 in Words With Friends
- Scrabble (US)
- Scrabble (UK)
- Words With Friends
“assistence” is not accepted in any of these games. See every word you can make from ASSISTANCE.