unpleasant
/ʌnˈplɛzn̩t/adjective
unpleasant is spelled U-N-P-L-E-A-S-A-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is unplesant: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 53 of all searches for the word. Unpleasant is an adjective meaning “Not pleasant”.
How many letters and syllables are in unpleasant?
| Letters | 10: U-N-P-L-E-A-S-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.3 times per million words; the 9,594th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, unplesant, about 10 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 unpleasant?
Unpleasant is spelled U-N-P-L-E-A-S-A-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 53 of the searches for unpleasant 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 unpleasant?
Unpleasant appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th 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 unpleasant?
- /ʌnˈplɛzn̩t/
Unpleasant 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-unpleasant.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of unpleasant
- unpleasanter comparative
- more unpleasant comparative
- unpleasantest superlative
- most unpleasant superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does unpleasant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Not pleasant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Unpleasant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense not pleasant:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | déplaisant, pénible, désagréable |
| German | unangenehm |
| Portuguese | desagradável, injucundo |
| Spanish | desagradable, desapacible, insuave, nada placentero, poco placible, no plácido |
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 unpleasant come from?
From Middle English unplesaunt, equivalent to un- + pleasant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).