linguistic unit

Questions about linguistic unit

What does linguistic unit mean?

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

What is another word for linguistic unit?

Close synonyms include language 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 linguistic unit a common word?

linguistic 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.