speech disorder

Questions about speech disorder

What does speech disorder mean?

speech disorder means "a disorder of oral speech".

What is another word for speech disorder?

Close synonyms include speech defect, 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 disorder a common word?

speech disorder 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.