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mollusque has added 21,757 words, 130 lists, 4,130 comments, and 14,806 tags.

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haplology   has been listed 10 times with 0 comments

metallage   has been listed 2 times with 3 comments

interpellate   has been listed 6 times with 4 comments

tatpurusha   has been listed 6 times with 2 comments

hyperlexic   has been listed 2 times with 1 comment

homoseme   has been listed 1 time with 3 comments

heterophone   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

condoret   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

retroliteral   has been listed 1 time with 10 comments

alphaliteral   has been listed 1 time with 1 comment

wordship   has been listed 1 time with 1 comment

homoliteral   has been listed 1 time with 1 comment

heteroliteral   has been listed 1 time with 1 comment

allographic   has been listed 2 times with 1 comment

heterographic   has been listed 2 times with 1 comment

wordie   has been listed 51 times with 22 comments

tmesis   has been listed 90 times with 10 comments

maledicta   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

alphavocalic   has been listed 3 times with 1 comment

retrovocalic   has been listed 2 times with 1 comment

prenominal   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

appellative   has been listed 5 times with 1 comment

verbification   has been listed 3 times with 1 comment

hypheresis   has been listed 1 time with 2 comments

epenthesis   has been listed 12 times with 1 comment

lemma   has been listed 21 times with 1 comment

nomenclature   has been listed 82 times with 0 comments

omniverbivorous   has been listed 2 times with 4 comments

multiliteral   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

polyptoton   has been listed 13 times with 5 comments

amelioration   has been listed 9 times with 3 comments

pejoration   has been listed 8 times with 1 comment

tricolon   has been listed 8 times with 0 comments

antanaclasis   has been listed 16 times with 2 comments

polysemy   has been listed 31 times with 0 comments

monovocalic   has been listed 2 times with 4 comments

crackjaw   has been listed 1 time with 2 comments

quotative   has been listed 3 times with 1 comment

privative   has been listed 6 times with 2 comments

superlative   has been listed 42 times with 2 comments

comparative   has been listed 6 times with 0 comments

chromonym   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

sprachgefühl   has been listed 24 times with 15 comments

absolutive   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

vocative   has been listed 5 times with 0 comments

objective   has been listed 12 times with 0 comments

nominative   has been listed 7 times with 0 comments

intensive   has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

ergative   has been listed 7 times with 0 comments

subjunctive   has been listed 13 times with 1 comment

accusative   has been listed 5 times with 0 comments

ablative   has been listed 17 times with 0 comments

dative   has been listed 10 times with 0 comments

genitive   has been listed 11 times with 6 comments

etymon   has been listed 6 times with 0 comments

factitive   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

karmadharaya   has been listed 5 times with 1 comment

quadriliteral   has been listed 4 times with 9 comments

yaddeyahdah   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

zoonym   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

mononym   has been listed 3 times with 2 comments

protonym   has been listed 3 times with 1 comment

paronym   has been listed 5 times with 1 comment

derivative   has been listed 26 times with 0 comments

cognate   has been listed 24 times with 0 comments

paranym   has been listed 2 times with 1 comment

paedonym   has been listed 2 times with 1 comment

matronym   has been listed 3 times with 1 comment

euonym   has been listed 15 times with 4 comments

eponym   has been listed 30 times with 0 comments

xenonym   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

metonym   has been listed 14 times with 8 comments

meronym   has been listed 9 times with 1 comment

hyponym   has been listed 9 times with 0 comments

hypernym   has been listed 12 times with 1 comment

euphonious   has been listed 35 times with 1 comment

nomen   has been listed 2 times with 1 comment

epithet   has been listed 51 times with 0 comments

word   has been listed 93 times with 12 comments

dysphemism   has been listed 31 times with 5 comments

euphemism   has been listed 57 times with 1 comment

acronym   has been listed 14 times with 1 comment

malaprop   has been listed 14 times with 0 comments

verbicide   has been listed 13 times with 2 comments

variant   has been listed 8 times with 1 comment

obsolete   has been listed 29 times with 2 comments

archaic   has been listed 76 times with 2 comments

neologism   has been listed 127 times with 2 comments

jumble   has been listed 16 times with 0 comments

portmanteau   has been listed 188 times with 13 comments

pejorative   has been listed 93 times with 2 comments

slang   has been listed 10 times with 3 comments

obscene   has been listed 18 times with 4 comments

duoliteral   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

biliteral   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

monosyllabic   has been listed 14 times with 2 comments

polysyllabic   has been listed 22 times with 0 comments

hyphenated   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

compound   has been listed 13 times with 0 comments

proper   has been listed 9 times with 1 comment

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about 1 year ago mollusque said:

You guys are gonna make me blush! This was my first list on Wordie, before I'd learned how to do hyperlinks. I pillaged several other lists, such as John's we are the knights who say "nym". The challenge was finding words for "k" and "y".

about 1 year ago reesetee said:

I agree--a veritable language lesson! :-)

about 1 year ago mollusque said:

Thanks for the kind words, skipvia.

about 1 year ago skipvia said:

This list is a true gem, mollusque. Thanks.

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