Hapaxes

/ˈhæ.pæk.sɪz/ noun

Definition

Plural of hapax; words that appear only once in a text, corpus, or recorded language.

Etymology

Standard English plural formation from Greek 'hapax,' adding the English plural suffix -es to form the plural of this linguistic term.

Kelly Says

In a corpus of billions of words, there are millions of hapaxes—words that someone wrote or said once but never again, making them invisible to most language databases.

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