#word_form__form__signifier the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"
supertype: word a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"
subtype: plural_form__plural the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
subtype: singular_form__singular the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton
subtype: ghost_word__ghostword a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error
subtype: root_word__root__base__stem__theme__radical (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
subtype: etymon__root a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
subtype: citation_form__main_entry_word__entry_word__entryword the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary
subtype: abbreviation.word_form a shortened form of a word or phrase
subtype: apocope abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds; "the British get `pud' from `pudding' by apocope"
subtype: acronym a word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name
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