Meanings
plural pseudowords
- human sciencesA 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 186Synonyms: wug word
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA 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.
Origin
Translations
Catalan logàtom
- logàtomunit
Dutch logatoom
- logatoomunit
Esperanto pseŭdovorto
- pseŭdovortounit
French pseudo-mot
- pseudo-motunit
German Logatom
- Logatomunit
Greek ψευδολέξη
- ψευδολέξη (psevdoléxi)unit
Hebrew מִלַּת תֶּפֶל
- מִלַּת תֶּפֶל (milát téfel)unit
Indonesian kata semu
- kata semuunit
Japanese 擬似語
- 擬似語 (gijigo)unit
Korean 유사 비단어
- 유사 비단어 (yusa bidaneo)unit
Polish logatom
- logatomunit
Thai ศัพท์เทียม
- ศัพท์เทียม (sàp tiam)unit
Cite this entry
pseudoword. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudoword
“pseudoword.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudoword. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pseudoword,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudoword.
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