disablement

Other forms of disablement

plural

disablements·

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 disablement

What does disablement mean?

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

How many syllables are in disablement?

disablement has 4 syllables: di-sa-ble-ment. The stress falls on "sa".

What is another word for disablement?

Close synonyms include disability, 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 disablement a common word?

disablement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.