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disillusionment

/ˌdɪsɪˈluʒənmənt/noun

disillusionment is spelled D-I-S-I-L-L-U-S-I-O-N-M-E-N-T: 15 letters and 5 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,176th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, disillusionment means “A feeling of disappointment, akin to depression, arising from the realization that something is not what it was expected or believed to be, possibly…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of disillusionment is disillusionments.

How many letters and syllables are in disillusionment?

Letters15: D-I-S-I-L-L-U-S-I-O-N-M-E-N-T
Syllables5 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 36,176th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is disillusionment?

Disillusionment appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,176th 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 disillusionment?

  • UK /ˌdɪsɪˈluːʒənmənt/
  • UK /ˌdɪsɪˈljuːʒənmənt/
  • US /ˌdɪsɪˈluʒənmənt/

Disillusionment has 5 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-disillusionment.wav, En-au-disillusionment.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of disillusionment

  • disillusionments plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does disillusionment mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A feeling of disappointment, akin to depression, arising from the realization that something is not what it was expected or believed to be, possibly accompanied by philosophical angst from having one's beliefs challenged.

  2. 2

    The act of freeing from an illusion; the state of being freed therefrom.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Disillusionment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdésillusion (feeling that arises from the discovery that…)
GermanDesillusionierung, Enttäuschung, Ernüchterung (feeling that arises from the discovery that…)
Spanishdesilusión (feeling that arises from the discovery that…), desilusionamiento (act of freeing from an illusion)

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 disillusionment come from?

From dis- + illusion + -ment.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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