syntactic
adjective/sɪnˈtæktɪk/
Frequency rank: #15,486 most common English word
Meaning
Relating to the rules and structure of how words or symbols are arranged to form correct sentences or expressions.
Example sentence
The professor pointed out several syntactic errors in the student's code that caused it to fail.
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