handicapped

Other forms of handicapped

plural

handicappeds·

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 handicapped

What does handicapped mean?

handicapped means "people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in handicapped?

handicapped has 3 syllables: han-dicap-ped. The stress falls on "han". In IPA it is /ˈhændiˌkæpt/.

What is another word for handicapped?

Close synonyms include disabled, disabled. 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 handicapped a common word?

handicapped 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 handicapped?

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