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PRONUNCIATION OF NONWORD

nonword  [ˈnɒnˈwɜːd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NONWORD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nonword is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NONWORD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pseudoword

A pseudoword is a unit of speech or text that appears to be an actual word in a certain language, while in fact it has no meaning in the lexicon. It is a kind of non-lexical vocable.

Definition of nonword in the English dictionary

The definition of nonword in the dictionary is a series of letters not recognised as a word.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NONWORD


afterword
ˈɑːftəˌwɜːd
backword
ˈbækˌwɜːd
buzzword
ˈbʌzwɜːd
byword
ˈbaɪˌwɜːd
catchword
ˈkætʃˌwɜːd
codeword
ˈkəʊdˌwɜːd
crossword
ˈkrɒswɜːd
foreword
ˈfɔːˌwɜːd
headword
ˈhɛdˌwɜːd
keyword
ˈkiːˌwɜːd
password
ˈpɑːsˌwɜːd
reword
riːˈwɜːd
swearword
ˈswɛəˌwɜːd
watchword
ˈwɒtʃˌwɜːd
whirred
wɜːd
word
wɜːd
word-for-word
ˌwɜːdfəˈwɜːd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NONWORD

nonvocational
nonvolatile
nonvolatile memory
nonvolcanic
nonvoluntary
nonvoter
nonvoting
nonwage
nonwar
nonwinged
nonwoody
nonwool
nonwork
nonworker
nonworking
nonwoven
nonwriter
nonyellowing
nonyl
nonzero

WORDS THAT END LIKE NONWORD

at a word
buzz word
double-edged sword
f-word
in a word
mum´s the word
n-word
of one´s word
operative word
printed word
root word
sword
the c-word
the f-word
the last word
the n-word
the sword
the word
word for word
written word

Synonyms and antonyms of nonword in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nonword» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NONWORD

Find out the translation of nonword to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nonword from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nonword» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

非单词
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

no palabras
570 millions of speakers

English

nonword
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

nonword
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

nonword
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

nonword
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

não palavra
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

nonword
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

non-mot
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nonword
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nichtwort
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

非単語
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

단어가 아닌
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nonword
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nonword
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

nonword
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नॉनword
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sözcük olmayan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

non di parola
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nonword
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

nonword
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nonword
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

nonword
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nonword
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nonword
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nonword
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nonword

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NONWORD»

The term «nonword» is normally little used and occupies the 138.533 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NONWORD» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nonword

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NONWORD»

Discover the use of nonword in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nonword and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Psychology of Language: From Data to Theory
Is the effect caused by the phonological or visual similarity between the nonword and word? Martin (1982) and Taft (1982) argued that it is visual similarity that is important. Pseudohomophones are more confusable with words than other ...
Trevor A. Harley, 2013
2
Developmental Disorders of Language Learning and Cognition
Although the children with SLI performed typically on tests of speech discrimination and articulation rate, and showed the normal effect of word length in memory, they had significant difficulty on a test of nonword repetition relative to CA (but ...
Charles Hulme, Margaret J. Snowling, 2013
3
Written Language Disorders
Hence, this component is necessary not only for nonword writing, but also for nonword reading and nonword repetition. By contrast, the Phoneme-to- Grapheme Conversion system is required only for nonword writing. The two components are ...
R.M. Joshi, 1991
4
Reading and the Mental Lexicon
A nonword takes longer to respond to than a word because the former requires an exhaustive search to determine that there is no appropriate lexical entry, while the search for the latter terminates when a lexical match is achieved (i.e. the ...
Marcus Taft, 2013
5
PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING&MOTIVATION
s argument hinges on the fact that all prior experiments have confounded the relatedness proportion with what they called the nonword ratio, which is the proportion of trials on which a target is a nonword given that it is unrelated to its prime.
Gordon H. Bower, 1990
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Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the ...
nonword resembles one or many real words, the longer people will take to recognize it as a nonword. This, of course, is why doned looks more like a real word than, say, ptunx, even though, technically speaking both are regular nonwords in ...
Garrison W. Cottrell, 1996
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Basic Processes in Reading: Visual Word Recognition
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Derek Besner, Glyn W. Humphreys, 2012
8
Essential Topics in Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism: ...
For the purpose of this study two operational definitions of phonological STM capacity were formulated—one involving articulation of lists of nonwords and the other involving passive recognition sets of nonword lists. The two operational ...
Mirosław Pawlak, Larissa Aronin, 2013
9
THE ADAPTIVE BRAIN II: Vision, speech, language, and motor ...
In condition R/Nu'. both the R prime and the nonword target activate the list representation of the word from which the nonword was derived. Hence the nonword target generates a relatively large number of word misidentifications.
‎1987
10
The Handbook of Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Processes: ...
One such caution centers around the shared nonword repetition deficit between children with SLI, children at risk for dyslexia, and children with poor working memory abilities, but appropriate oral and written language (Bishop, 2002; ...
Jacqueline Guendouzi, Filip Loncke, Mandy J. Williams, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NONWORD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nonword is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Word Guy: Mentors tend to plant grammatical oaks
After he left, my dad took me aside and solemnly warned me never to use this nonword. And I never have. Likewise, my seventh-grade English ... «Tribune-Review, Jul 15»
2
Eniwetok Blaster
for TENT, and the childhood memories of “Start to plunk” for the nonword KER. I'm still grooving on the smooth Tuesday puzzle from yesterday, ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
3
How Appetite Affects the Brain
When subjects doing the word/nonword task were hungry, they not only improved on food-related words but get better by an equal measure at ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
4
"Goodnight, Everybody": Last Night with David Letterman
Night after night, Shaffer's nonword chortles and punctuations (with a true musician's timing) and post-monologue exchanges with Letterman ... «PopMatters, May 15»
5
Top 10 Misused Words Of The 1870s
White is resigned to this nonword's continued existence, however, because it's so useful. "To some sins," he writes despairingly, "men are so ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
6
Nonword 'Virilistic' Gets Atty Sanctioned For Sexism
Law360, New York (May 15, 2015, 7:46 PM ET) -- A Washington state employment attorney was sanctioned $500 Friday for calling his opposing counsel in a $1 ... «Law360, May 15»
7
Gibberish test can expose real language disorders in children
The Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Test reported in the book was the result of collaboration between colleagues spanning the whole of ... «Medical Xpress, Apr 15»
8
'Lying press': Anti-Islam PEGIDA slogan chosen nonword of the year
Sympathizers of German right-wing populist movement PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident) attend their ... «RT, Jan 15»
9
New Scrabble Dictionary Disrepects The Game
The current incarnation of the OWL (“OWL2”) initially included the nonword “crababble” (a typo for “crabapple”), for example. But, whereas the ... «FiveThirtyEight, Oct 14»
10
The Scrabble King Is Dead, Long Live The Scrabble King
What's more, Richards reportedly allowed someone to play a phony word against him — the nonword MOLEY — an unheard of event, given ... «FiveThirtyEight, Aug 14»

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