Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lexical category

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English

Syllables
lex-i-cal -cat-e-go-ry
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as nouns or verbs.

Inflected Forms

lexical categories (plural)

Synonyms

word class lexical class part of speech

Questions

What does lexical category mean?
A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as nouns or verbs.

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