speciality

Other forms of speciality

plural

specialities·

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 speciality

What does speciality mean?

speciality means "an asset of special worth or utility". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in speciality?

speciality has 5 syllables: spec-i-al-i-ty. The stress falls on "al". In IPA it is /ˌspɛʃiˈælɪti/.

What is another word for speciality?

Close synonyms include forte, strong suit, long suit, metier, specialty. 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 speciality a common word?

speciality 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 speciality?

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