# discount

> English word · Verb · IPA /dɪˈskaʊnt/ · frequency rank #3,938

## Definitions
1. To sell at a reduced price.
2. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, etc.
3. To disregard or regard as unimportant.
4. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
5. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
6. To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **dismount** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/discount-vs-dismount)
- **discounted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/discount-vs-discounted)

## Common misspellings (12)
`ddiscount`, `dicsount`, `disccount`, `disconut`, `discounnt`, `discountt`, `discoutn`, `discuont`, `disocunt`, `disscount`, `dsicount`, `idscount`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/discount