disrespectful
/dɪs.ɹɪˈspɛkt.fəl/adjective
disrespectful is spelled D-I-S-R-E-S-P-E-C-T-F-U-L. The wrong spelling people search most is disrepectful: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 42 of all searches for the word. Disrespectful is an adjective meaning “Lacking respect”.
How many letters and syllables are in disrespectful?
| Letters | 13: D-I-S-R-E-S-P-E-C-T-F-U-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.4 times per million words; the 12,216th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, disrepectful, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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 disrespectful?
Disrespectful is spelled D-I-S-R-E-S-P-E-C-T-F-U-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 42 of the searches for disrespectful 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 disrespectful?
Disrespectful appears 4.4 times per million words in written English, the 12,216th 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 disrespectful?
- /dɪs.ɹɪˈspɛkt.fəl/
Disrespectful has 4 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-disrespectful.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of disrespectful
- more disrespectful comparative
- most disrespectful superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does disrespectful mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Lacking respect.
- 2
irrespective, heedless, regardless
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Disrespectful in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense lacking respect:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | irrespectueux |
| German | respektlos, despektierlich, unhöflich, verächtlich, respektwidrig, unehrerbietig |
| Portuguese | desrespeitoso |
| Spanish | irrespetuoso |
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 disrespectful come from?
From dis- + respectful.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).