featural
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.03 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to features.
adj
Being or relating to a writing system whose symbols encode phonological features of the sounds that they correspond to.
Example Sentences
- "As Xu and Carey have shown, while children may be aware of property or featural distinctions between objects, they do not use them to distinguish unique individuals (Xu and Carey 1996)."
- "As a featural alphabet, Hangeul bears some similarities with scientifically created writing systems invented centuries later, such as the Visible Speech system invented by Alexander Melville Bell."
- "Because of its systematic categorization of sounds, with corresponding graphic interpretation, some linguists have come to consider han'gŭl a "featural" system."
- "The same author also cites Pitman's shorthand as an example of a ‘featural’ writing system ."
Etymology
From feature + -al.