disobedient
/dɪs.əˈbiː.dɪənt/adjective, noun
disobedient is spelled D-I-S-O-B-E-D-I-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is disobediant: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Disobedient is an adjective meaning “Not obedient”.
How many letters and syllables are in disobedient?
| Letters | 11: D-I-S-O-B-E-D-I-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 43,187th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, disobediant, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell disobedient?
Disobedient is spelled D-I-S-O-B-E-D-I-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure.
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 disobedient?
Disobedient appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,187th 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 disobedient?
- UK /dɪs.əˈbiː.dɪənt/
Disobedient 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-disobedient.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of disobedient
- more disobedient comparative
- most disobedient superlative
- disobedients plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does disobedient mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Not obedient.
noun
- 1
One who disobeys.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Disobedient in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense not obedient:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | désobéissant |
| German | ungehorsam |
| Portuguese | desobediente |
| Spanish | desobediente, díscolo |
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 disobedient come from?
From Middle English disobedient, dysobedyent, from Old French desobedient; morphologically, from dis- + obedient.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).