wordexistence
Wordexistence is a concept in linguistics and lexicography that describes whether a given sequence of letters and sounds is recognized as a word within a language or its dictionary. It encompasses conventional usage, morphosyntactic behavior, and presence in a community’s vocabulary, and it has practical implications for dictionaries, corpora, and language-processing systems.
Assessing wordexistence involves several criteria. Attestation in reliable data sources (texts, speech, transcripts), stable orthography, and
Wordexistence is dynamic. Languages borrow terms from other languages, generate new terms through technology and culture,
In practical terms, the concept guides dictionary policy, spell-checkers, and language-model vocabularies. Lexicographers weigh attestation and