Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

subconstituency

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sub-con-stituen-cy
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A constituency (electoral district or special interest group) that makes up part of a larger constituency.

noun

The property of being a subconstituent.

Example Sentences

"The dominance relation directly characterizes the property of subconstituency: X dominates Y if Y is a subconstituent of X."
"The result is the exclusion of access by a selecting head to information about either the phonological form or the syntactic subconstituency of its arguments."

Etymology

From sub- + constituency.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: sub

Inflected Forms

subconstituencies (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

subconstituent

Questions

What does subconstituency mean?: A constituency (electoral district or special interest group) that makes up part of a larger constituency.
Where does subconstituency come from?: From sub- + constituency.

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