enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Pseudoword - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.It is a specific type of nonce word, or even more narrowly a nonsense word, composed of a combination of phonemes which nevertheless conform to the language's phonotactic rules. [1]

  3. Hermann Ebbinghaus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Ebbinghaus

    Easily formable associations with regular words would interfere with his results, so he used items that would later be called "nonsense syllables" (also known as the CVC trigram). A nonsense syllable is a consonant-vowel-consonant combination, where the consonant does not repeat and the syllable does not have prior meaning. BOL (sounds like ...

  4. Moby Project - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Project

    However, some of the lists are contaminated: for example, the Japanese list contains English words such as abnormal and non-words such as abcdefgh and m,./.There are also unusual peculiarities in the sorting of these lists, as the French list contains a straight alphabetical listing, while the German list contains the alphabetical listing of traditionally capitalized words and then the ...

  5. Nonce word - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_word

    nonsense word: a nonce word that is meaningless nonword: a nonsense word that is not even pronounceable in a particular language; pseudoword: a nonsense word that ...

  6. The word as we first heard it was super-cadja-flawjalistic-espealedojus. [9] Dictionary.com meanwhile says it is "used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English." [10] The word contains 34 letters and 14 syllables.

  7. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English

    The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen. The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters). Nine-letter words include flagfalls; eight-letter words include galahads and alfalfas. Since the bottom row contains no vowels, no standard words can be ...

  8. Nonsense verse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense_verse

    Nonsense verse is a form of nonsense literature usually employing strong prosodic elements like rhythm and rhyme. It is often whimsical and humorous in tone and ...

  9. Central Vigilance Commission - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Vigilance_Commission

    The CVC has also been publishing a list of corrupt government officials against which it has recommended punitive action. [7] In 2004, the Union government authorised the CVC as the "Designated Agency" to receive written complaints for disclosure on any allegation of corruption or misuse of office and recommend appropriate action.