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disconsolate

/dɪsˈkɑnsəlɪt/adjective

disconsolate is spelled D-I-S-C-O-N-S-O-L-A-T-E: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 86,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, disconsolate means “Cheerless, dreary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in disconsolate?

Letters12: D-I-S-C-O-N-S-O-L-A-T-E
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 86,301st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 disconsolate?

Disconsolate appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 86,301st 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 disconsolate?

  • UK /dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪt/
  • US /dɪsˈkɑnsəlɪt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-disconsolate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with disconsolate?

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

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 disconsolate

  • more disconsolate comparative
  • most disconsolate superlative

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

What does disconsolate mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Cheerless, dreary.

    I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.

  2. 2

    Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.

    For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteDisconsolateness.

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

Disconsolate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germantrostlos (cheerless, dreary), untröstlich (inconsolable)
Portuguesemelancólico (cheerless, dreary), desconsolado, desamparado (inconsolable)
Spanishdesconsolado (cheerless, dreary)
Frenchinconsolable (inconsolable)

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 disconsolate come from?

From Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) + cōnsōlātus (“consoled”).

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

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