language unit

Questions about language unit

What does language unit mean?

language unit means "one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed".

What is another word for language unit?

Close synonyms include linguistic unit. 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 language unit a common word?

language unit 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.