deficiency

Other forms of deficiency

plural

deficiencies·

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 deficiency

What does deficiency mean?

deficiency means "the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deficiency?

deficiency has 4 syllables: de-fic-ien-cy. The stress falls on "fic". In IPA it is /dɪˈfɪʃənsi/.

What is another word for deficiency?

Close synonyms include lack, want, insufficiency, inadequacy. 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 deficiency a common word?

deficiency is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 deficiency?

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