disparity

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
15
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/dɪsˈpæɹɪti/(UK)
See all 9 pronunciations
/dɪsˈpæɹɪti/(UK) · /dɪsˈpæɹɪti/ · /dɪsˈpɛɹɪti/ · [dɪsˈpɛɹɪɾi] · /dɪsˈpeɹɪti/ · /dɪsˈpɛɹəti/ · [dɪsˈpɛɹɾi] · /dɪsˈpeɹəti/ · [dɪsˈpæɹɪɾi]

Definition of disparity

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)The state of being unequal; difference.
    “With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech.”
    “There was a disparity of view over the use of diesel or electric motive power for the route south of Crewe, and the Prime Minister even felt a modern design of steam locomotives would be the best solution.”
See all 2 definitions

noun

  1. (uncountable)The state of being unequal; difference.
    “With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech.”
    “There was a disparity of view over the use of diesel or electric motive power for the route south of Crewe, and the Prime Minister even felt a modern design of steam locomotives would be the best solution.”
  2. (countable)Incongruity.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle French disparité, from Latin disparitātem, accusative of disparitās, from dispār + -tās, from dis- + pār. By surface analysis, dis- + parity.

Words you can make from disparity

200+ playable · top: RAPIDITY (14 pts)

Best play rapidity 14 points

8-letter words

1 word

7-letter words

5 words

6-letter words

12 words

5-letter words

70 words

4-letter words

83 words

3-letter words

28 words

Find your best play with disparity

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes disparity, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.