closed-class word

Questions about closed-class word

What does closed-class word mean?

closed-class word means "a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning".

What is another word for closed-class word?

Close synonyms include function word. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is closed-class word a common word?

closed-class word is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.