displease
/dɪsˈpliːz/
"displease" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“displease” is an uncommon English word, ranked #74,902 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #74,902
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.
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|---|---|
| Headword | displease |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɪsˈpliːz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “displease” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for displease is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɪsˈpliːz/. Corpus data places it at rank #74,902 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for displease in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: English dis- + please, from Middle English displesen, from Anglo-Norman despleisir, desplere, from Old French desplere (des- + plere). The correct English form is displease, spelled D-I-S-P-L-E-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.
- 2To give displeasure or offense.
- 3To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
Etymology
English dis- + please, from Middle English displesen, from Anglo-Norman despleisir, desplere, from Old French desplere (des- + plere).
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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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Using “displease”
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- The one correct English spelling is D-I-S-P-L-E-A-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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