wordhood
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wordhood (uncountable)
- The quality of being a word.
- 2009, Ben Zimmer, Mailbag Friday: "Texted":
- You can call them nonstandard, colloquial, informal, casual, slangy, or even signs of the apocalypse, but there's no reason to deny them wordhood.