speech defect

1. 1.

   a disorder of oral speech

   Synonymsspeech disorderdefect of speech

   Broaderdisorder

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Questions about speech defect

What does speech defect mean?

speech defect means "a disorder of oral speech".

What is another word for speech defect?

Close synonyms include speech disorder, defect of speech. 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 speech defect a common word?

speech defect 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.