disparagingly
adverb
disparagingly is spelled D-I-S-P-A-R-A-G-I-N-G-L-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is disparingly: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Disparagingly is an adverb meaning “Insultingly”.
How many letters and syllables are in disparagingly?
| Letters | 13: D-I-S-P-A-R-A-G-I-N-G-L-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 8 million words; the 85,266th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, disparingly, 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 disparagingly?
Disparagingly is spelled D-I-S-P-A-R-A-G-I-N-G-L-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for disparagingly 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 disparagingly?
Disparagingly appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 85,266th 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 disparagingly?
Disparagingly 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).
Forms of disparagingly
- more disparagingly comparative
- most disparagingly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does disparagingly mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adverb
- 1
Insultingly.
The candidate spoke of his opponent disparagingly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does disparagingly come from?
From disparaging + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).