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discount

/dɪˈskaʊnt/verb, noun, adjective

discount is spelled D-I-S-C-O-U-N-T: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 3,939th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, discount means “To sell at a reduced price” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in discount?

Letters8: D-I-S-C-O-U-N-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing22 times per million words; the 3,939th 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 discount?

Discount appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 3,939th 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 discount?

  • /dɪˈskaʊnt/
  • /ˈdɪskaʊnt/

As a noun (“A reduction in price”): /ˈdɪskaʊnt/.

Discount 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-discount_(verb).wav, En-us-discount.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of discount

  • discounts present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • discounting participle, present
  • discounted participle, past

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

What does discount mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To sell at a reduced price.

    Sales were slow even after the shop discounted the product.

  2. 2

    rareTo deduct from an account, debt, charge, etc.

    Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

  3. 3

    To disregard or regard as unimportant.

    Owing to his reputation, they discounted his comments.

  4. 4

    To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.

    The banks discount notes and bills of exchange.

  5. 5

    To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

    The market has dropped, discounting changes in interest rates.

  6. 6

    To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

noun

  1. 1

    A reduction in price.

    For the summer sale, there was 40% discount in all the stores at the mall.

  2. 2

    A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.

  3. 3

    The rate of interest charged in discounting.

  4. 4

    A lack or shortcoming.

  5. 5

    The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

adjective

  1. 1

    Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.

    If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.

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

How do you abbreviate discount?

Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of discount: Disc., disc., disct.

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

Discount in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdécompter (to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and…), rabais, discompte, promotion (reduction in price)
Germannachlassen, Nachlass gewähren, einen Rabatt gewähren, abziehen (to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and…), einkalkulieren, einberechnen (to take into consideration beforehand)
Portuguesedescontar (to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and…), desconto, abatimento (reduction in price)
Spanishdescontar (to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and…), descuento, rebaja (reduction in price)

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 discount come from?

Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomputō (“to deduct, discount”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + computō (“to reckon, count”). By surface analysis, dis- + count.

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

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