lexeme
noun/ˈlɛksiːm/
Frequency rank: #19,957 most common English word
Meaning
The basic unit of the vocabulary of a language, representing a word and all its inflected forms.
Example sentence
The word 'run' is considered single lexeme even though it appears in many different grammatical forms.
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