disappoint
/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/verb
disappoint is spelled D-I-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is dissapoint: about 220 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Disappoint is a verb meaning “To sadden or displease (someone) by underperforming, or by not delivering something promised or hoped for”.
How many letters and syllables are in disappoint?
| Letters | 10: D-I-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.7 times per million words; the 11,685th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, dissapoint, about 220 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 disappoint?
Disappoint is spelled D-I-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 4 in 10 of the searches for disappoint 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 disappoint?
Disappoint appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th 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 disappoint?
- UK /dɪsəˈpɔɪnt/
- US /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnt/
Disappoint 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-disappoint.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with disappoint?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as disappoint from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɪnt/):
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 disappoint
- disappoints present, singular, he/she/it
- disappointing participle, present
- disappointed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does disappoint mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To sadden or displease (someone) by underperforming, or by not delivering something promised or hoped for.
His lack of respect disappointed her.
- 2
To deprive (someone of something expected or hoped for).
- 3
datedTo fail to meet (an expectation); to fail to fulfil (a hope).
- 4
datedTo show (an opinion, belief, etc.) to be mistaken.
- 5
obsoleteTo prevent (something planned or attempted).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Disappoint in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | décevoir, désappointer , priver |
| German | enttäuschen , vorenthalten |
| Portuguese | desapontar, decepcionar, dececionar |
| Spanish | decepcionar, desilusionar, defraudar, quedar mal ante, desengañar, desesperanzar |
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 disappoint come from?
From Middle French desapointer (compare French désappointer). The word originally meant to "dispossess of appointed office", and eventually broadened to mean "to frustrate the expectations or desires of" and "defeat the realization or fulfillment of".
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).