Words marked trade name

Questions about this list

What is the words marked trade name collection?

602 entries with a sense WordNet labels trade name. Register matters more than meaning when you are choosing between two words that mean the same thing. It holds 602 entries drawn from the 147,478 in AltF Lexicon.

How was this list of words marked trade name put together?

Membership is WordNet's own register label: every entry here has at least one sense marked "trade name".

What is the most common of the words marked trade name?

aspirin — it sits in the top commonness band of the words stored for this list. The list is ordered by commonness, so the words most readers already half know come first and the specialist tail comes last.

What is the longest word in this collection?

sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate, at 32 letters. The average across the list is 3.4 syllables per word.

Does this page show every one of the 602 words?

No. 602 entries match the rule; the page carries the first 600 of them, ranked by commonness. The remainder are all still in the dictionary and reachable by search or by browsing A–Z.

• Idioms and phrases7,472Entries of more than one word whose meaning is not the sum of its parts — the part of English that defeats literal translation.
• Phrasal verbs1,834Two-word verbs — a verb plus a particle that changes its meaning entirely. Give up, take on, put off.
• Words used in United Kingdom918918 entries carrying a sense WordNet marks as United Kingdom usage — vocabulary that is standard there and conspicuous elsewhere.
• Informal words610Senses marked colloquial or informal: fine in speech, conspicuous in a report.
• Words marked colloquialism610610 entries with a sense WordNet labels colloquialism. Register matters more than meaning when you are choosing between two words that mean the same thing.
• Words marked plural373373 entries with a sense WordNet labels plural. Register matters more than meaning when you are choosing between two words that mean the same thing.
• Words that began as trademarks208Senses marked as trademarks — brand names that turned into common nouns.
• Words marked trademark208208 entries with a sense WordNet labels trademark. Register matters more than meaning when you are choosing between two words that mean the same thing.
• Slang202Senses WordNet marks as slang — informal vocabulary that has not been admitted to neutral writing.