Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pseudoword

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pseu-do-word
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A unit of speech or text that respects the phonotactic restrictions of a language, but is not part of the lexicon; a non-word whose nonexistence is merely an accidental gap.

Example Sentences

"In Experiment 1, pseudowords made up of Italian derivational suffixes of various frequencies and meaningless pseudoroots were contrasted to pseudowords in which the same pseudoroots were combined with control orthographically legal final sequences."

Etymology

From pseudo- + word.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pseudo

Inflected Forms

pseudowords (plural)

Phrases

nonce word nonsense word

Frequently Paired Words

nonce word nonsense word pseudoletter

Synonyms

wug word

Questions

What does pseudoword mean?: A unit of speech or text that respects the phonotactic restrictions of a language, but is not part of the lexicon; a non-word whose nonexistence is merely an accidental gap.
Where does pseudoword come from?: From pseudo- + word.

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