disappointing
"disappointing" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“disappointing” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #6,894 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #6,894
- frequency rank, English
- 13
- letters
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Causing disappointment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disappointing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #6,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “disappointing” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for disappointing is 13 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #6,894 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Causing disappointment.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for disappointing, with forms such as "ddisappointing", "diasppointing", and "disapointing". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is disappointing, spelled D-I-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Causing disappointment.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddisappointing,diasppointing,disapointing,disapopinting,disappionting,disappoinitng,disappoinnting,disappointign,disappointingg,disappointinng,disappointnig,disappointting,disappoitning,disapponiting,dispapointing,dissappointing,dsiappointing,idsappointing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disappointing - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “disappointing”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-I-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.