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pseudo-anglicism

Syllables: pseu·do-an·gli·cismUK/ˌsuː.dəʊ̯ˈæŋ.ɡlɪ.sɪz(ə)m//ˌsu.doʊ̯ˈæŋ.ɡlɪ.sɪz(ə)m/

pseudo-anglicism noun: a word in a language other than English that has an English appearance but does not exist in English itself.

Noun (1)

pseudo-anglicism (plural pseudo-anglicisms)

  1. A word in a language other than English that has an English appearance but does not exist in English itself.
    • But does it matter if these so-called English words don’t exist in English at all? Baer doesn’t believe so. “I don’t think most people actually realise which are pseudo-anglicisms and which are real anglicisms,” he says.2016 October 13, Matthew Anderson, “The foreign words that seem like English – but aren’t”, in BBC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2020

Noun (2) capitalized: pseudo-Anglicism

pseudo-Anglicism (plural pseudo-Anglicisms)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of pseudo-anglicism.

Forms of pseudo-anglicism

pluralpseudo-anglicisms
alternative formpseudo-Anglicism
pluralpseudo-Anglicisms

Origin of pseudo-anglicism

From pseudo- + Anglicism.

Questions about pseudo-anglicism

What does pseudo-anglicism mean?
Pseudo-anglicism means a word in a language other than English that has an English appearance but does not exist in English itself.
What part of speech is pseudo-anglicism?
Pseudo-anglicism is a noun.
How do you pronounce pseudo-anglicism?
Pseudo-anglicism is pronounced /ˌsuː.dəʊ̯ˈæŋ.ɡlɪ.sɪz(ə)m/ (UK).
What is the plural of pseudo-anglicism?
The plural of pseudo-anglicism is pseudo-anglicisms.

Words near pseudo-anglicism in the dictionary

  1. pseudo-acronyms
  2. pseudo-active
  3. pseudo-analytical
  4. pseudo-angiosarcoma
  5. pseudo-angiosarcomatous
  6. pseudo-anglicism
  7. pseudo-anglicisms
  8. pseudo-Anosov
  9. pseudo-archaic
  10. pseudo-argument
  11. Pseudo-Aristotle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pseudo-anglicism (page history and authors); pseudo-Anglicism (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.

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