disappointed
/ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/adjective, verb
disappointed is spelled D-I-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is dissapointed: about 480 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Disappointed is an adjective meaning “Defeated of expectations or hope; experiencing disappointment; let down”.
How many letters and syllables are in disappointed?
| Letters | 12: D-I-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 26 times per million words; the 3,479th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, dissapointed, about 480 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 disappointed?
Disappointed is spelled D-I-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T-E-D. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for disappointed 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 disappointed?
Disappointed appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,479th 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 disappointed?
- /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪd/
- US /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/
Disappointed 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-disappointed.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with disappointed?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as disappointed from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɪnɪd/):
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 disappointed
- more disappointed comparative
- most disappointed superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does disappointed mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Defeated of expectations or hope; experiencing disappointment; let down.
After all his anticipation, the trip left him deeply disappointed.
- 2
Having had a marriage proposal rejected.
- 3
Expressing or indicating disappointment.
a disappointed tone / face / silence
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of disappoint
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Disappointed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense defeated of hope or expectation:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | déçu |
| German | enttäuscht |
| Portuguese | decepcionado, desapontado |
| Spanish | decepcionado |
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.