discuss
/dɪˈskʌs/verb
discuss is spelled D-I-S-C-U-S-S. The wrong spelling people search most is dicuss: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 51 of all searches for the word. Discuss is a verb meaning “To converse or debate concerning a particular topic”.
How many letters and syllables are in discuss?
| Letters | 7: D-I-S-C-U-S-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 46 times per million words; the 2,204th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, dicuss, about 70 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 discuss?
Discuss is spelled D-I-S-C-U-S-S. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 44 of the searches for discuss in either form.
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 discuss?
Discuss appears 46 times per million words in written English, the 2,204th 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 discuss?
- UK /dɪˈskʌs/
- /dɪˈskʊs/
- US /dɪˈskʌs/
Discuss 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: En-us-discuss.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with discuss?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as discuss from its last stressed vowel (/ʌs/):
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 discuss
- discusses present, singular, he/she/it
- discussing participle, present
- discussed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does discuss mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
Let's sit down and discuss whether we should have a baby.
- 2
obsoleteTo communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).
- 3
obsoleteTo break to pieces; to shatter.
- 4
colloquialobsoleteTo deal with, in eating or drinking; consume.
- 5
To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
- 6
obsoleteTo drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.
June 15, 1751, Samuel Johnson, letter in The Rambler The softness of my hands was secured by medicated gloves, and my bosom rubbed with a pomade prepared by my mother, of virtue to discuss pimples, and clear discolourations.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Discuss in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to converse or debate concerning a particular topic:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | discuter, s'entretenir sur, débattre |
| German | diskutieren, besprechen, erörtern, debattieren |
| Portuguese | discutir |
| Spanish | discutir, conversar, debatir, argumentar, dialogar, departir |
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 discuss come from?
From Middle English discussen, from Middle French and Anglo-Norman discusser (French discuter), from Latin discussus, past participle of discutiō (“to strike or shake apart, break up, scatter; examine, discuss”), from dis- (“apart”) + quatiō (“to shake”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).