disc
/dɪsk/noun, verb
disc is spelled D-I-S-C: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “disc vs disk” about 9,900 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, disc means “A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of disc is discs.
How many letters and syllables are in disc?
| Letters | 4: D-I-S-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,778th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search |
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 common is disc?
Disc appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th 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 disc?
- /dɪsk/
Disc has one syllable (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-disc.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with disc
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: disk.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of disc
- discs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- disk US
- discing participle, present
- disced participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does disc mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
A coin is a disc of metal.
- 2
An intervertebral disc.
- 3
Something resembling a disc.
Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.
- 4
A vinyl phonograph or gramophone record.
Turn the disc over, after it has finished.
- 5
The flat surface of an organ, as a leaf, any flat, round growth.
- 6
Ellipsis of flying disc; synonym of frisbee; generic name for the trademark Frisbee.
- 7
Alternative form of disk
verb
- 1
To harrow with a disc harrow.
- 2
To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airflow and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.
In the air, the asymmetric drag generated by a discing propeller can result in loss of control of the airplane.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does disc come from?
From French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, discus, dish, disk, and diskos.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).