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disproportionate

/ˌdɪs.pɹəˈpɔɹ.ʃə.nət/adjective, verb

disproportionate is spelled D-I-S-P-R-O-P-O-R-T-I-O-N-A-T-E: 16 letters and 5 syllables. It appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,537th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, disproportionate means “Not proportionate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in disproportionate?

Letters16: D-I-S-P-R-O-P-O-R-T-I-O-N-A-T-E
Syllables5 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.2 times per million words; the 18,537th 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 disproportionate?

Disproportionate appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,537th 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 disproportionate?

  • UK /dɪs.pɹəˈpɔː.ʃə.nət/
  • US /ˌdɪs.pɹəˈpɔɹ.ʃə.nət/

As a verb (“To undergo disproportionation”): /dɪs.pɹəˈpɔː.ʃə.neɪt/, /ˌdɪs.pɹəˈpɔɹ.ʃə.neɪt/.

Disproportionate 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). Recordings: En-us-disproportionate_(adjective).ogg, En-us-disproportionate_(verb).ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Simplificationalizer-disproportionate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with disproportionate?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as disproportionate from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹʃənət/):

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 disproportionate

  • more disproportionate comparative
  • most disproportionate superlative
  • disproportionates present, singular, he/she/it
  • disproportionating participle, present
  • disproportionated participle, past

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

What does disproportionate mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Not proportionate.

    grossly disproportionate

  2. 2

    Out of proportion.

verb

  1. 1

    To undergo disproportionation.

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

Disproportionate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdisproportionnel (not proportionate), disproportionné (out of proportion)
Portuguesedesproporcionado (not proportionate), desproporcional (out of proportion), desproporcionar (to undergo disproportionation)
Spanishdesproporcionado (not proportionate)
Germandisproportionieren (to undergo disproportionation)

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 disproportionate come from?

From dis- + proportionate.

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

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