disemployment

noun

"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

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Key facts for disemployment
PropertyValue
Headworddisemployment
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “disemployment” in English

disemploymentfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment (as sometimes distinguished from unemployment).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how disemployment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. this glut of leisure and disemployment
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "disemployment"?
"disemployment" is spelled D-I-S-E-M-P-L-O-Y-M-E-N-T.
What does "disemployment" mean?
As a noun, "disemployment" means: The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment (as sometimes distinguished from unemployment).
What is the origin of the word "disemployment"?
From dis- + employment. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list