dyspeptic
/dɪsˈpɛp.tɪk/adjective, noun
dyspeptic is spelled D-Y-S-P-E-P-T-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is dispeptic: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Dyspeptic is an adjective meaning “Of, relating to, or having dyspepsia or indigestion”.
How many letters and syllables are in dyspeptic?
| Letters | 9: D-Y-S-P-E-P-T-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 18 million words; the 128,787th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, dispeptic, about 40 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 dyspeptic?
Dyspeptic is spelled D-Y-S-P-E-P-T-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for dyspeptic 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 dyspeptic?
Dyspeptic appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th 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 dyspeptic?
- UK /dɪsˈpɛp.tɪk/
Dyspeptic has 3 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-dyspeptic.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of dyspeptic
- more dyspeptic comparative
- most dyspeptic superlative
- dyspeptics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dyspeptic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of, relating to, or having dyspepsia or indigestion.
- 2
Irritable or morose.
noun
- 1
A dyspeptic person.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dyspeptic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | nauséabond, dyspeptique , irritable, morose |
| German | dyspeptisch, magenkrank , missgestimmt, verdrießlich |
| Portuguese | dispéptico |
| Spanish | dispéptico |
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 dyspeptic come from?
First attested in 1694. From Ancient Greek δύσπεπτος (dúspeptos, “difficult to digest”), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + πέπτω (péptō, “to digest”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).