dissembling

noun

"dissembling" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“dissembling” is an uncommon English word, ranked #87,220 in English word frequency and used as a noun.

#87,220
frequency rank, English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The action of the verb dissemble

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Key facts for dissembling
PropertyValue
Headworddissembling
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Frequency rank#87,220
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “dissembling” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). dissembling lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for dissembling is 11 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #87,220 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The action of the verb dissemble".

No misspelling variants are generated for dissembling in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is dissembling, spelled D-I-S-S-E-M-B-L-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    The action of the verb dissemble

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dissembling"?
"dissembling" is spelled D-I-S-S-E-M-B-L-I-N-G.
What does "dissembling" mean?
As a noun, "dissembling" means: The action of the verb dissemble
What language does "dissembling" come from?
"dissembling" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “dissembling”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is D-I-S-S-E-M-B-L-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list