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dispose

/dɪsˈpoʊz/verb

dispose is spelled D-I-S-P-O-S-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.4 times per million words in written English, the 14,307th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, dispose means “To eliminate or to get rid of something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in dispose?

Letters7: D-I-S-P-O-S-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.4 times per million words; the 14,307th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is dispose?

Dispose appears 3.4 times per million words in written English, the 14,307th 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 dispose?

  • US /dɪsˈpoʊz/
  • UK /dɪˈspəʊz/

Dispose has 2 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: En-us-dispose.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with dispose?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as dispose from its last stressed vowel (/oʊz/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of dispose

  • disposes present, singular, he/she/it
  • disposing participle, present
  • disposed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does dispose mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To eliminate or to get rid of something.

    I dispose of my trash in the garbage can.

  2. 2

    To distribute or arrange; to put in place.

  3. 3

    To deal out; to assign to a use.

    what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor

  4. 4

    To incline.

    In these uncertain times, I am disposed towards caution.

  5. 5

    obsoleteTo bargain; to make terms.

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteThe disposal or management of something.

  2. 2

    obsoleteBehaviour; disposition.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Dispose in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchse débarrasser de, éliminer (to get rid of something)
Germanbeseitigen, entsorgen (to get rid of something), ordnen (to distribute and put in place)
Portuguesedescartar, eliminar, jogar fora, deitar fora, livrar-se de (to get rid of something), dispor (to distribute and put in place)
Spanishdeshacerse, desechar (to get rid of something), disponer (to distribute and put in place)

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 dispose come from?

Borrowed from French disposer.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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