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discomfort

/dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/noun, verb

discomfort is spelled D-I-S-C-O-M-F-O-R-T. The wrong spelling people search most is unconfortability: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 72 of all searches for the word. Discomfort is a noun meaning “Mental or bodily distress”. The plural of discomfort is discomforts.

How many letters and syllables are in discomfort?

Letters10: D-I-S-C-O-M-F-O-R-T
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing4.5 times per million words; the 12,045th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, unconfortability, 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 discomfort?

Discomfort is spelled D-I-S-C-O-M-F-O-R-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 72 of the searches for discomfort in either form.

discomfortthe right spelling710 searches a month
unconfortabilitya missing d, u in place of i, n in place of s, n in place of m, an extra t, an extra a, an extra b, an extra i, an extra l, an extra i, an extra y10 searches a month

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 discomfort?

Discomfort appears 4.5 times per million words in written English, the 12,045th 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 discomfort?

  • UK /dɪsˈkʌmfət/
  • US /dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/

Discomfort 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)-Vealhurl-discomfort.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with discomfort?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as discomfort from its last stressed vowel (/ʌmfəɹt/):

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 discomfort

  • discomforts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • discomforting participle, present
  • discomforted participle, past

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

What does discomfort mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Mental or bodily distress.

  2. 2

    Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.

verb

  1. 1

    To cause annoyance or distress to.

  2. 2

    obsoleteTo discourage; to deject.

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

Discomfort in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchinconfort, malaise, mal-être (mental or bodily distress)
GermanUnbehagen (mental or bodily distress)
Portuguesedesconforto (mental or bodily distress)
Spanishfalta de confort, incomodidad (mental or bodily distress), desasosiego (something that disturbs one’s comfort)

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 discomfort come from?

From Middle English discomforten, from Anglo-Norman descomforter, equivalent to dis- + comfort.

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

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