disapproval
/dɪsəˈpɹuvəl/noun
disapproval is spelled D-I-S-A-P-P-R-O-V-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is disaproval: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 19 of all searches for the word. Disapproval is a noun meaning “The act of disapproving; condemnation”. The plural of disapproval is disapprovals.
How many letters and syllables are in disapproval?
| Letters | 11: D-I-S-A-P-P-R-O-V-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 20,101st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, disaproval, about 10 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 disapproval?
Disapproval is spelled D-I-S-A-P-P-R-O-V-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 19 of the searches for disapproval 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 disapproval?
Disapproval appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st 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 disapproval?
- US /dɪsəˈpɹuvəl/
- UK [dɪsəˈpɹuːvəɫ]
Disapproval 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)-Vealhurl-disapproval.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-disapproval.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with disapproval?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as disapproval from its last stressed vowel (/uvəl/):
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 disapproval
- disapprovals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does disapproval mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of disapproving; condemnation.
Everyone glared in disapproval at the man talking loudly on the phone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Disapproval in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense disapproval:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | désapprobation |
| German | Missbilligung |
| Spanish | desaprobación |
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 disapproval come from?
From disapprove + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).