disconcert

Other forms of disconcert

past tense

disconcerted·

present participle

disconcerting·

third person

disconcerts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disconcert

What does disconcert mean?

disconcert means "cause to feel embarrassment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disconcert?

disconcert has 3 syllables: dis-con-cert. The stress falls on "cert". In IPA it is /ˌdɪskənˈsɝt/.

What is another word for disconcert?

Close synonyms include confuse, flurry, put off, upset, discompose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is disconcert a common word?

disconcert is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with disconcert?

5 words rhyme with disconcert. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.