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wordlists

wordlists is the plural of wordlist.

Meaning of wordlist

Noun

wordlist (plural wordlists)

  1. (especially) A written collection of all words derived from a particular source, or sharing some other characteristic.
    • This is an annotated wordlist of the Ayere language, spoken in Ayere village in Kwara State, Nigeria. The wordlist was written by Mr. E.O. Olumorin for the West African Languages Survey in November 1961. […] Comparative wordlists of two dialects of Yoruba with Igala.2007 February 5, Roger Blench, “The Ayere and Ahan languages of Central Nigeria and their affinities”, in rogerblench.info, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2022, pages 1, 25
  2. The section of a style guide that lists particular words and terms, arranged alphabetically, to show for each one the preferred orthographic styling (e.g., hyphenation, spelling variant), as well as any usage prescription to be enforced about its usage.

Questions about wordlists

What is wordlists the plural of?
Wordlists is the plural of wordlist.

Words near wordlists in the dictionary

  1. wordline
  2. wordlines
  3. wordling
  4. wordlings
  5. wordlist
  6. wordlists
  7. wordlore
  8. wordly
  9. wordmaker
  10. wordmakers
  11. wordmaking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wordlists (page history and authors); wordlist (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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