#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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