Word.ws English Dictionary

nonce words

nonce words is the plural of nonce word.

Meaning of nonce word

Noun

nonce word (plural nonce words)

  1. A word invented for the occasion, especially to create alliteration or a rhyme.

Questions about nonce words

What is nonce words the plural of?
Nonce words is the plural of nonce word.

Words near nonce words in the dictionary

  1. noncavitated
  2. noncavitating
  3. noncavitational
  4. nonce
  5. nonce word
  6. nonce words
  7. nonced
  8. noncelebration
  9. noncelebrations
  10. noncelebratory
  11. noncelebrities

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nonce words (page history and authors); nonce word (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “nonce words.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nonce_words. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.