dissatisfaction
/dɪsˌsætɪsˈfækʃən/noun
dissatisfaction is spelled D-I-S-S-A-T-I-S-F-A-C-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is disatisfaction: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Dissatisfaction is a noun meaning “Unhappiness or discontent”. The plural of dissatisfaction is dissatisfactions.
How many letters and syllables are in dissatisfaction?
| Letters | 15: D-I-S-S-A-T-I-S-F-A-C-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 19,077th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, disatisfaction, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell dissatisfaction?
Dissatisfaction is spelled D-I-S-S-A-T-I-S-F-A-C-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for dissatisfaction 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 dissatisfaction?
Dissatisfaction appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th 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 dissatisfaction?
- UK /dɪsˌsætɪsˈfækʃən/
- US /dɪsˌsætɪsˈfækʃən/
- US [dɪsˌsæɾɪsˈfækʃən]
Dissatisfaction 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-dissatisfaction.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with dissatisfaction?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as dissatisfaction from its last stressed vowel (/ækʃən/):
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 dissatisfaction
- dissatisfactions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dissatisfaction mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Unhappiness or discontent.
Job dissatisfaction results in high turnover.
- 2
The cause of such feelings.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dissatisfaction in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense unhappiness or discontent:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | insatisfaction, mécontentement |
| German | Unzufriedenheit |
| Portuguese | descontentamento, insatisfação |
| Spanish | disgusto |
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 dissatisfaction come from?
From dis- + satisfaction.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).