morpheme

About 0.88 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning. It may be a letter, a syllable, or otherwise.

Similar words

lexeme word free morpheme sememe submorpheme morphophoneme lingueme syntaxeme monomorpheme grapheme

Often followed by

is in and boundary boundaries structure to or of

Word family

morphemes morphemic morphemically