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disclose

/dɪsˈkləʊz/verb

disclose is spelled D-I-S-C-L-O-S-E: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 6.9 times per million words in written English, the 9,045th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, disclose means “To uncover; physically expose to view” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in disclose?

Letters8: D-I-S-C-L-O-S-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.9 times per million words; the 9,045th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in 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).

How common is disclose?

Disclose appears 6.9 times per million words in written English, the 9,045th 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 disclose?

  • /dɪsˈkləʊz/

Disclose has 2 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-disclose.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of disclose

  • discloses present, singular, he/she/it
  • disclosing participle, present
  • disclosed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does disclose mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo open up; unfasten.

  2. 2

    To uncover; physically expose to view.

  3. 3

    To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known; state openly; reveal (something).

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA disclosure.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Disclose in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishdescerrar (open), deschavar (make known)
Frenchrévéler, divulguer, dévoiler (make known), découvrir, laisser voir (physically expose to view)
Germanveröffentlichen, bekanntgeben, bekanntmachen (make known), enthüllen (physically expose to view)
Portuguesedivulgar (make known), revelar, expor (physically expose to view)

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 disclose come from?

From Middle English disclosen, from Middle French desclos, from Old French desclore, itself from Vulgar Latin disclaudere, from Latin dis- + claudere (“to close, shut”) or as a variant of discludo, discludere (cf. disclude). By surface analysis, dis- + close.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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