deformity

Other forms of deformity

plural

deformities·

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 deformity

What does deformity mean?

deformity means "an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deformity?

deformity has 4 syllables: de-for-mi-ty. The stress falls on "for". In IPA it is /dɪˈfɔɹməti/.

What is another word for deformity?

Close synonyms include malformation, misshapenness, disfigurement, disfiguration. 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 deformity a common word?

deformity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 deformity?

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