noncompositional
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "To cite a textbook example, white house and White House are both written with internal spaces, but the first is argued to be a phrase because it is semantically compositional and has phrase-final stress, while the latter is argued to be a word because it has noncompositional semantics and compound-initial stress."
Etymology
From non- + compositional.