ordervolym
Ordervolym, in linguistic and lexicographic contexts, refers to the size of a vocabulary as defined for a given language, text, corpus, or dictionary. It is typically expressed as the number of distinct words or headwords considered part of the lexicon. The term can denote either the overall set of lemmas (base forms) in a dictionary or the vocabulary of a language or corpus after appropriate processing.
A key distinction is between types and tokens. Types correspond to unique word forms or lemmas, while
Vocabulary size is influenced by morphological richness, orthography, and sampling. In languages with extensive inflection, form-based
Applications of ordervolym include lexicography, computational linguistics, language documentation, and language teaching. It serves as a