phonotactic
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Is phonotactic a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (linguistics, phonology) Pertaining to phonotactics.Examples: "So, we all have intuitions about possible and impossible stress patterns in sentences. Moreover, we all have strong phonotactic intuitions – i.e. intuitions about what are possible and impossible sound sequences among native words in English. For instance, we'd probably all agree that blick is a possible, but non-occurring English word, whereas *bnick by contrast is not a possible native English word[.]"; "The term missy appears to be a Chinese Pidgin English term from English miss + the Cantonese phonotactic suffix -ee/-y[.]"Synonyms: phonotacticalnot-comparable
Definition source: Wiktionary