Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

non-lemma

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English

Syllables: non-lem-ma
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any form of a lexeme that is not its lemma.

Example Sentences

"According to Schmauder (1991) they had a narrow range of frequency of occurrence (our nonlemma count yields an average of 68; Francis & Kucera, 1982)."
"Prep. … Prenominal adjectives … Non lemmas … Basque multiword … English multiwords … English unknown … Others 11% … 21% … 7% … 5% … 17% … 16% … 21%"
"If the database is to be printed out in the form of a dictionary, non-lemmas can be generated from the items contained in these fields."
"Initialize lemmatizer by providing dictionary file. If unknown, leave as non lemmata not found."
"In step 3, non-words or non-lemmas, that are often generated by the guesser modules, are filtered out from the result."

Etymology

From non- + lemma.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: non

Inflected Forms

non-lemmas (plural) non-lemmata (plural) nonlemma (alternative)

Questions

What does non-lemma mean?: Any form of a lexeme that is not its lemma.
Where does non-lemma come from?: From non- + lemma.

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