disability: meaning and words from its letters
10 letters · 16 letter points · starts with D · ends with Y
Meaning of disability
noun
- countable
A condition characterised by a significant limitation in a person's physical or intellectual powers or ability.
Example: people with disabilities
- uncountable
The state of having such a condition; the state of being disabled.
- countable
A limitation in function (the things that a person can do or achieve) that is driven by any combination of their impairments (the medical facts about them) and the imperfect state of society's inaccessibility that sometimes fails to accommodate their needs.
- countable
A lack of legal qualification to do something; legal incapacity or incompetency.
Listed forms: disabilities.
Source: Wiktionary — disability.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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noun
the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is disability in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of disability
D(2) + I(1) + S(1) + A(1) + B(3) + I(1) + L(1) + I(1) + T(1) + Y(4) = 16 points.
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Anagrams of disability
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from disability
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