disagreement
/ˌdɪsəˈɡɹimənt/noun
disagreement is spelled D-I-S-A-G-R-E-E-M-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is dissagreement: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 33 of all searches for the word. Disagreement is a noun meaning “An argument or debate”. The plural of disagreement is disagreements.
How many letters and syllables are in disagreement?
| Letters | 12: D-I-S-A-G-R-E-E-M-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.6 times per million words; the 11,870th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, dissagreement, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell disagreement?
Disagreement is spelled D-I-S-A-G-R-E-E-M-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 33 of the searches for disagreement in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is disagreement?
Disagreement appears 4.6 times per million words in written English, the 11,870th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce disagreement?
- UK /dɪsəˈɡɹiːmənt/
- US /ˌdɪsəˈɡɹimənt/
Disagreement has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-disagreement.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of disagreement
- disagreements plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does disagreement mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An argument or debate.
They had a bit of a disagreement about what color to paint the bedroom, but they have reached a compromise.
- 2
A condition of not agreeing or concurring.
The theory shows considerable disagreement with the data.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Disagreement in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | désaccord |
| German | Streit, Meinungsverschiedenheit |
| Spanish | desavenencia, desacuerdo, desencuentro |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does disagreement come from?
From dis- + agreement or disagree + -ment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).