syntactic category

Questions about syntactic category

What does syntactic category mean?

syntactic category means "(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties".

What is another word for syntactic category?

Close synonyms include grammatical category. 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 syntactic category a common word?

syntactic category 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.