# disappear

> English word · Verb · IPA /dɪsəˈpɪə/ · frequency rank #6,131

## Definitions
1. To vanish.
2. To go missing; to become a missing person.
3. To go away; to become lost.
4. To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.

## Etymology
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)”).

## Easily confused with
- **disappeared** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/disappear-vs-disappeared)

## Common misspellings (11)
`ddisappear`, `diasppear`, `disapear`, `disapepar`, `disappaer`, `disappearr`, `disappera`, `dispapear`, `dissappear`, `dsiappear`, `idsappear`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/disappear