Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phonotactic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English

Syllables: phono-tac-tic
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to phonotactics.

adj

Pertaining to phonotaxis.

Example Sentences

"So, we all have intuitions about possible and impossible stress patterns in sentences. Moreover, we all have strong phonotactic intuitions – i.e. intuitions about what are possible and impossible sound sequences among native words in English. For instance, we'd probably all agree that blick is a possible, but non-occurring English word, whereas *bnick by contrast is not a possible native English word[.]"
"The term missy appears to be a Chinese Pidgin English term from English miss + the Cantonese phonotactic suffix -ee/-y[.]"

Derived Forms

phonotactically

Synonyms

phonotactical

Rhymes With

tactic galactic chiropractic lactic syntactic didactic prophylactic backtick protactic factic

Questions

What does phonotactic mean?: Pertaining to phonotactics.

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