disappear: meaning and words from its letters
9 letters · 14 letter points · starts with D · ends with R
Meaning of disappear
verb
- intransitive
To vanish.
- intransitive
To go missing; to become a missing person.
Example: Eighteen years after Jaycee Dugard disappeared in 1991, she was found alive in the summer of 2009.
- intransitive
To go away; to become lost.
- euphemistic, often, transitive
To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.
Example: The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.
Listed forms: disappears, disappearing, disappeared.
Source: Wiktionary — disappear.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for disappear.
verb
get lost, as without warning or explanation
- vanish
- go away
verb
become invisible or unnoticeable
- vanish
- go away
verb
cease to exist
verb
become less intense and fade away gradually
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is disappear in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of disappear
D(2) + I(1) + S(1) + A(1) + P(3) + P(3) + E(1) + A(1) + R(1) = 14 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of disappear
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from disappear
244 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in disappear. Showing up to 24, longest first.