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How to spell disappointment

hear itdis·ap·point·ment/,dɪsə'pɔɪntmənt/nounAcademic

What it means: A feeling of sadness when expectations are not met.

In a sentence: I felt disappointment when my ice cream fell on the ground.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double p, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as dissapointment or disapointment.

Same family: appointment, disappoint, disappointing, disappointed, expectation. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Disappointment” comes from the Middle French word “desappointer,” meaning ‘to undo an appointment’ or ‘remove from office.’ Over time, the word shifted from the concrete idea of losing a position to the emotional feeling we now use for let-downs of all kinds.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · Prefixes keep every letter

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