disemployment
"disemployment" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“disemployment” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment (as sometimes distinguished from unemployment).
Corpus desk
Index EN-disemployment · disemployment · English
disemployment · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disemployment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “disemployment” in English
Rare enough to double-check
disemployment is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment (as sometimes distinguished from unemployment).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for disemployment in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From dis- + employment. The correct English form is disemployment, spelled D-I-S-E-M-P-L-O-Y-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment (as sometimes distinguished from unemployment).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disemployment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
this glut of leisure and disemployment
So an AI-enabled future may have all sorts of economic dislocations — not just unemployment, but disemployment — the obsolescence of a lot of professions. But the marginal cost of goods and services will essentially go to zero, providing enough wealth that societies can provide a universal basic income for all. What you’re predicting makes me think of a 1…
Etymology
From dis- + employment.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.