Pseudoword

Rarity: Common

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

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 conforms to the language's phonotactic rules.

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