displease
dis·please/dɪsˈpliːz/verb
displease is spelled D-I-S-P-L-E-A-S-E, 2 syllables: dis·please. The wrong spelling people search most is unplease: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Displease is a verb meaning “To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex…”.
How many letters and syllables are in displease?
| Letters | 9: D-I-S-P-L-E-A-S-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: dis·please |
| In writing | about once in every 6 million words; the 74,980th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, unplease, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 displease?
Displease is spelled D-I-S-P-L-E-A-S-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for displease 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 displease?
Displease appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,980th 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 displease?
- /dɪsˈpliːz/
Displease has 2 syllables, split dis·please in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Mélange_a_trois-displease.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of displease
- displeases present, singular, he/she/it
- displeasing participle, present
- displeased participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does displease mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.
The boy's rudeness displeased me.
- 2
To give displeasure or offense.
- 3
obsoleteTo fail to satisfy; to miss of.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Displease in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to fail to please or satisfy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | missfallen |
| Spanish | desplacer, displacer, desagradar, disgustar, desazonar |
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 displease come from?
English dis- + please, from Middle English displesen, from Anglo-Norman despleisir, desplere, from Old French desplere (des- + plere).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).