syntax

About 7.55 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
2. noun The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
3. noun The study of the structure of phrases, sentences, and language.

Similar words

phrase structure sentence structure syntactical syntactic directed usage structure syntaxes grammar ordering

Often followed by

of and is for in to error errors that

Word family

syntax error syntax errors syntaxes