disintegration
/dɪsˌɪnd.əˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/noun
disintegration is spelled D-I-S-I-N-T-E-G-R-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is desintegration: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Disintegration is a noun meaning “A process by which anything disintegrates”. The plural of disintegration is disintegrations.
How many letters and syllables are in disintegration?
| Letters | 14: D-I-S-I-N-T-E-G-R-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.0 times per million words; the 28,214th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, desintegration, about 30 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 disintegration?
Disintegration is spelled D-I-S-I-N-T-E-G-R-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for disintegration 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 disintegration?
Disintegration appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,214th 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 disintegration?
- UK /dɪs.ɪn.tɪˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/
- US /dɪsˌɪnd.əˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/
- US [dɪsˌɪn.əˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən]
Disintegration 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)-Vininn126-disintegration.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with disintegration?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as disintegration from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):
- situation
- association
- population
- administration
- operation
- organization
- application
- location
- generation
- foundation
- conversation
- investigation
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 disintegration
- disintegrations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does disintegration mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A process by which anything disintegrates.
- 2
The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
- 3
The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
- 4
The process of radioactive decay.
- 5
The radioactive decay of a single atom.
The sample exhibited an activity of three disintegrations per second.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Disintegration in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a process by which anything disintegrates:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | désintégration |
| German | Zerfall |
| Portuguese | desintegração |
| Spanish | desintegración |
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 disintegration come from?
From disintegrate + -ion or dis- + integration.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).