disgusting
dis·gust·ing/dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋ/adjective, verb
disgusting is spelled D-I-S-G-U-S-T-I-N-G, 3 syllables: dis·gust·ing. The wrong spelling people search most is discusting: about 280 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Disgusting is an adjective meaning “Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful”.
How many letters and syllables are in disgusting?
| Letters | 10: D-I-S-G-U-S-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: dis·gust·ing |
| In writing | 17 times per million words; the 4,838th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, discusting, about 280 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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).
How do you spell disgusting?
Disgusting is spelled D-I-S-G-U-S-T-I-N-G. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for disgusting 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 disgusting?
Disgusting appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,838th 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 disgusting?
- US /dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋ/
- US /dɪsˈkʌstɪŋ/
- US /dɪzˈɡʌstɪŋ/
Disgusting has 3 syllables, split dis·gust·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-disgusting.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of disgusting
- disgustinger comparative
- more disgusting comparative
- disgustingest superlative
- most disgusting superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does disgusting mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.
a disgusting waste of money
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of disgust
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Disgusting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense repulsive, distasteful:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dégoûtant, dégueulasse, immonde |
| German | ekelhaft, eklig, grauslich, abstoßend, ekelerregend |
| Portuguese | nojento, asqueroso, repulsivo, nauseante, seboso |
| Spanish | asqueroso, repulsivo, nauseabundo, despreciable, repugnante, estomagante |
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 disgusting come from?
By surface analysis, disgust + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).