Number of syllables in the word 'assimilation'

1. No of syllables in assimilation : 5
2. Divide syllables in assimilation : as-sim-i-la-tion

More about the word - assimilation

1. noun
2. Definition : The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
3. Definition : The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.
4. Definition : (by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.
5. Definition : A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.

Sources:

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/assimilation