Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

private language problem

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.74 in modern English

Syllables: pri-vate lan-guage prob-lem
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

4

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The problem, considered by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and other philosophers, of whether it is possible for a private language to exist.

Inflected Forms

private language problems (plural)

Questions

What does private language problem mean?: The problem, considered by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and other philosophers, of whether it is possible for a private language to exist.

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