disability

Other forms of disability

plural

disabilities·

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 disability

What does disability mean?

disability means "the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness".

How many syllables are in disability?

disability has 5 syllables: dis-a-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪti/.

What is another word for disability?

Close synonyms include disablement, handicap, impairment. 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 disability a common word?

disability 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 disability?

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