Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

formal language

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English

Syllables: for-mal lan-guage
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A set of finite strings (called words) made of symbols (from a finite set of symbols, called an alphabet).

Inflected Forms

formal languages (plural)

Questions

What does formal language mean?: A set of finite strings (called words) made of symbols (from a finite set of symbols, called an alphabet).

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