Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

endocentric compound

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: en-do-cen-tric -com-pound
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

having the same syntactic function in the sentence as one of its immediate constituents.

Example Sentences

"‘greenhouse’ is an endocentric compound, since it is a noun as is its head house."

Questions

What does endocentric compound mean?: having the same syntactic function in the sentence as one of its immediate constituents.

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