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disk

/dɪsk/noun, verb

disk is spelled D-I-S-K: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “disc vs disk” about 9,900 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, disk means “A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of disk is disks.

How many letters and syllables are in disk?

Letters4: D-I-S-K
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing10 times per million words; the 7,009th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Same letters

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 common is disk?

Disk appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th 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 disk?

  • /dɪsk/

Disk has one syllable (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: En-us-disk.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with disk

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

disc vs disk9,900 G

Also written: disc.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with disk?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as disk.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: skid.

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 disk

  • disks plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • disc
  • disking participle, present
  • disked participle, past

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

What does disk mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

    A coin is a disk of metal.

  2. 2

    A two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.

  3. 3

    Something resembling a disk.

    Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.

  4. 4

    An intervertebral disc

  5. 5

    datedA vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.

    Turn the disk over, after it has finished.

  6. 6

    Ellipsis of floppy disk.

    He still uses disks from 1979.

  7. 7

    Ellipsis of hard disk.

  8. 8

    nonstandardEllipsis of optical disk.

    She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.

verb

  1. 1

    To harrow.

  2. 2

    To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.

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

Disk in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdisque (a thin, flat, circular plate)
GermanScheibe, Kreisscheibe, Kreisfläche (a thin, flat, circular plate), Kreis (geometry: set of all points in a plane within a…), Bandscheibe (intervertebral disc)
Portuguesedisco (a thin, flat, circular plate), círculo (geometry: set of all points in a plane within a…), vinil (a vinyl phonograph/gramophone record)
Spanishdisco (a thin, flat, circular plate), círculo (geometry: set of all points in a plane within a…), disco intervertebral (intervertebral disc), disco duro (a computer's hard disk)

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 disk come from?

From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικέω (dikéō, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and diskos.

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

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