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disinterment

/ˌdɪs.ɪnˈtɝː.mənt/noun

disinterment is spelled D-I-S-I-N-T-E-R-M-E-N-T: 12 letters and 4 syllables. It appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, disinterment means “The act of disinterring” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of disinterment is disinterments.

How many letters and syllables are in disinterment?

Letters12: D-I-S-I-N-T-E-R-M-E-N-T
Syllables4 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 44 million words; the 204,233rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is disinterment?

Disinterment appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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 disinterment?

  • UK /ˌdɪs.ɪnˈtɜː.mənt/
  • US /ˌdɪs.ɪnˈtɝː.mənt/

Disinterment has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

What rhymes with disinterment?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as disinterment from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹmənt/):

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 disinterment

  • disinterments plural

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

What does disinterment mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The act of disinterring.

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

Disinterment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense act of disinterring:

LanguageWords
Spanishdesenterramiento

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 disinterment come from?

From disinter + -ment.

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

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