disappeared
/dɪsəˈpɪɹd/adjective, noun, verb
disappeared is spelled D-I-S-A-P-P-E-A-R-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is dissapeared: about 180 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Disappeared is an adjective meaning “Caused to disappear by someone, often for political reasons”.
How do you spell disappeared?
Disappeared is spelled D-I-S-A-P-P-E-A-R-E-D. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for disappeared 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.
What does disappeared mean?
adjective
- 1
informalCaused to disappear by someone, often for political reasons.
noun
- 1
A desaparecido.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of disappear
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce disappeared?
- UK /dɪsəˈpɪəd/
- US /dɪsəˈpɪɹd/
- /dɪsəˈpiːɹd/
Disappeared 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-disappeared.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of disappeared
- disappeareds plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is disappeared?
Disappeared appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,589th 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).
Disappeared in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense caused to disappear:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | desaparecido |
| Spanish | desaparecido |
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.