disappointing
adjective, verb
disappointing is spelled D-I-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is dissapointing: about 140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Disappointing is an adjective meaning “Causing disappointment”.
How many letters and syllables are in disappointing?
| Letters | 13: D-I-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 6,884th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, dissapointing, about 140 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell disappointing?
Disappointing is spelled D-I-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T-I-N-G. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for disappointing 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 disappointing?
Disappointing appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 6,884th 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 disappointing?
- US
Disappointing 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-disappointing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of disappointing
- more disappointing comparative
- most disappointing superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does disappointing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Causing disappointment.
disappointing results / news; a disappointing experience
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of disappoint
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Disappointing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that disappoints or disappoint:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | décevant |
| German | enttäuschend |
| Portuguese | decepcionante, dececionante |
| Spanish | decepcionante |
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.