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word association

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English

Syllables
word as-so-ci-a-tion
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An activity in which the participant is presented with a word and asked to state the first word they can think of, often used as a game or, in psychoanalysis, a tool for analysing aspects of the unconscious.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

word associations (plural)

Questions

What does word association mean?
An activity in which the participant is presented with a word and asked to state the first word they can think of, often used as a game or, in psychoanalysis, a tool for analysing aspects of the unconscious.

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