| Noun | 1. | word form - the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning" ghost word - a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error etymon, root - a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes acronym - a word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name | |