Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

formal grammar

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English

Syllables: for-mal -gram-mar
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A precise mathematical description of a formal language, consisting of terminal symbols, nonterminal symbols, a nonterminal symbol serving as start symbol, and a set of production rules that control the expansion of nonterminal symbols into strings consisting of both terminal and nonterminal symbols.

Inflected Forms

formal grammars (plural)

Phrases

generative grammar analytic grammar

Frequently Paired Words

generative grammar analytic grammar

Questions

What does formal grammar mean?: A precise mathematical description of a formal language, consisting of terminal symbols, nonterminal symbols, a nonterminal symbol serving as start symbol, and a set of production rules that control the expansion of nonterminal symbols into strings consisting of both terminal and nonterminal symbols.

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