Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

linguistic unit

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English

Syllables: lin-guis-tic u-nit
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a range of units of language, whether a word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, whole conversation or a story, morpheme, grapheme, phoneme and syllable.

Inflected Forms

linguistic units (plural)

Synonyms

unit of language linguistic unit language unit

Questions

What does linguistic unit mean?: Any of a range of units of language, whether a word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, whole conversation or a story, morpheme, grapheme, phoneme and syllable.

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