Speakur

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syntactic category

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.81 in modern English

Syllables
syn-tac-tic -cat-e-go-ry
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

n

(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties

Synonyms

grammatical category

Questions

What does syntactic category mean?
(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties

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