difference

Other forms of difference

plural

differences·

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 difference

What does difference mean?

difference means "the quality of being unlike or dissimilar". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in difference?

difference has 3 syllables: dif-fe-rence. The stress falls on "dif". In IPA it is /ˈdɪfɚəns/.

What is another word for difference?

Close synonyms include deviation, divergence, departure, dispute, difference of opinion. 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.

What is the opposite of difference?

The recorded antonyms are sameness.

Is difference a common word?

difference is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 difference?

1 word rhymes with difference. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.