Assortment vs Jumble - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between assortment and jumble

is that assortment is a collection of varying but related items while jumble is a mixture of unrelated things.

to mix or confuse.

(en noun)

A collection of varying but related items.

This box has an assortment of chocolates, there's a picture on the cover so you know which is which.

* diversity, Whitman's sampler * See also

(jumbl)

to mix or confuse

* Burton

Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together?

* Tennyson

Every clime and age jumbled together.

to meet or unite in a confused way

(-)

A mixture of unrelated things.

(British) Items for a rummage sale.

(archaic) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.

* See also