equity

Other forms of equity

plural

equities·

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 equity

What does equity mean?

equity means "the difference between the market value of a property and the claims held against it". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in equity?

equity has 3 syllables: eq-ui-ty. The stress falls on "eq". In IPA it is /ˈɛkwəti/.

What is another word for equity?

Close synonyms include fairness. 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 equity?

The recorded antonyms are inequity.

Is equity a common word?

equity 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.