disappear
/dɪsəˈpɪɹ/verb
disappear is spelled D-I-S-A-P-P-E-A-R. The wrong spelling people search most is dissapear: about 350 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Disappear is a verb meaning “To vanish”.
How many letters and syllables are in disappear?
| Letters | 9: D-I-S-A-P-P-E-A-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,138th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, dissapear, about 350 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell disappear?
Disappear is spelled D-I-S-A-P-P-E-A-R. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for disappear 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 disappear?
Disappear appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,138th 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 disappear?
- UK /dɪsəˈpɪə/
- US /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/
- /dɪsəˈpiːɹ/
Disappear has 3 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-disappear.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with disappear?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as disappear from its last stressed vowel (/ɪɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of disappear
- disappears present, singular, he/she/it
- disappearing participle, present
- disappeared participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does disappear mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To vanish.
- 2
To go missing; to become a missing person.
Eighteen years after Jaycee Dugard disappeared in 1991, she was found alive in the summer of 2009.
- 3
To go away; to become lost.
- 4
To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.
The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Disappear in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | disparaître , faire disparaître |
| German | verschwinden, entschwinden , zum Verschwinden bringen, verschwinden lassen |
| Portuguese | desaparecer, sumir , fazer sumir, fazer desaparecer, sumir com, desaparecer com |
| Spanish | desaparecer, desparecer |
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 disappear come from?
From Middle English disapeeren, equivalent to dis- + appear. Displaced native Old English fordwīnan. Displaced native Old English cwincan, whose causative persists as quench (“put out (fire)”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).