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disclosure

/dɪsˈkloʊʒɚ/noun

disclosure is spelled D-I-S-C-L-O-S-U-R-E: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,121st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, disclosure means “The act of revealing something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of disclosure is disclosures.

How many letters and syllables are in disclosure?

Letters10: D-I-S-C-L-O-S-U-R-E
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing10 times per million words; the 7,121st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is disclosure?

Disclosure appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,121st 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 disclosure?

  • UK /dɪsˈkləʊʒə(ɹ)/
  • US /dɪsˈkloʊʒɚ/
  • Australia /dɪsˈkləʉ.ʒə(ɹ)/

Disclosure has 3 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)-Vininn126-disclosure.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with disclosure?

7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as disclosure from its last stressed vowel (/oʊʒəɹ/):

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 disclosure

  • disclosures plural

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

What does disclosure mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The act of revealing something.

  2. 2

    The making known of a previously hidden fact or series of facts to another party; the act of disclosing.

    get full disclosure

  3. 3

    That which is disclosed; a previously hidden fact or series of facts that is made known.

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

Disclosure in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrévélation, divulgation, propagation, publication (the act of revealing something)
GermanOffenlegung, Enthüllung, Bekanntmachung (the act of revealing something), Veröffentlichung, Bekanntgabe (law: the making known of facts)
Portugueserevelação, divulgação (the act of revealing something), exposição (law: the making known of facts)
Spanishdescerramiento, deschave (the act of revealing something)

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 disclosure come from?

From disclose by analogy with closure. A purely English formation.

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

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