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pseudowords

pseudowords is the plural of pseudoword.

Meaning of pseudoword

Noun

pseudoword (plural pseudowords)

  1. 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.
    • 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.2011, R. Harald Baayen, Robert Schreuder, Morphological Structure in Language Processing, page 186
    Synonyms:
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Questions about pseudowords

What is pseudowords the plural of?
Pseudowords is the plural of pseudoword.

Words near pseudowords in the dictionary

  1. pseudowhorls
  2. pseudowire
  3. pseudowires
  4. pseudowollastonite
  5. pseudoword
  6. pseudowords
  7. pseudowork
  8. pseudoxanthoma
  9. pseudoxanthoma elasticum
  10. pseudoxanthomas
  11. pseudoxanthomata

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