dispiriting
/dɪˈspɪɹɪtɪŋ/
"dispiriting" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dispiriting” is uncommon English (frequency #94,780 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,780
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dispiriting · dispiriting · English
dispiriting · rank #94,780 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,780
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH disputable
Nearest frequency peer: disputable (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “dispiriting”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Dionysian
Dionysian
5,226 corpus weight
- discours
discours
5,224 corpus weight
- Disha
Disha
5,223 corpus weight
- dispiriting
dispiriting
5,221 corpus weight
- disputable
disputable
5,220 corpus weight
- doctrinaire
doctrinaire
5,217 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dispiriting” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dispiriting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dɪˈspɪɹɪtɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #94,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dispiriting” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dispiriting is uncommon English at frequency #94,780 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /dɪˈspɪɹɪtɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dispiriting, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is dispiriting, spelled D-I-S-P-I-R-I-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dispiriting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Luckily, though, the sumptuous, eerie look and mood of the movie make it possible to ignore this dispiriting and superfluous adherence to convention.
Kane's late leveller will make a big difference to England's morale before two home games against Italy and Hungary, as a second successive loss would have been dispiriting for a side suffering a physical and mental toll after such a long season.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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