Headword

Definitions: Headword

Headword

Noun

1. A word that is qualified by a modifier.

2. A word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry).

Domain	Definitions
Computing	An expression of varying complexity constituting a "technical term" in the broadest sense. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Headword

Synonym: head word (n). (additional references)

"Headword" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.18% of the time. "Headword" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	87.18%	34	59,261
Noun (proper)	12.82%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	39	N/A

Language		Translations for "headword"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fjalë kyç, fjalë kryesore. (various references)

Bulgarian		заглавна дума, заглавие (designation, heading, headline, title). (various references)

Czech		heslové slovo, heslo (catchword, combination, entry, heading, motto, parole, password, slogan, watch word, watchword, word), slovo v záhlaví. (various references)

Danish		vedette (USA:Eurodicautom, vedette), term (term, USA:Eurodicautom, vedette). (various references)

Finnish		hakusana (entry word, index word), pääsana. (various references)

French		vedette (heading, index heading), USA:Eurodicautom. (various references)

German		stichwort (catchword, clue, cue, heading, key word, key-word), schlagwort (byword, catchphrase, catchword, heading, keyword, slogan, USA:Eurodicautom, vedette). (various references)

Italian		lemma (catchword, entry, lemma). (various references)

Norwegian		oppslagsord. (various references)

Pig Latin		eadwordhay

Portuguese		frase feita (catchword, cliché), deixa (catchword, cue), andamento de navio. (various references)

Russian		заглавное слово (catchword). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		glavna reč. (various references)

Spanish		palabra principal (entry word, index word), artículo (article, commodity, contribution, feature, import, item, object, paper, report, section, special feature, story, thing). (various references)

Swedish		huvudord (key word), uppslagsord (entry, entry word, heading, index word, lemma). (various references)

Turkish		madde başı sözcük. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "headword": headwords. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Headword" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eadwold, Headfort, Heaword, Hidenori. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-h-o-r-w"
	-1 letter: hoarded.
	-2 letters: adored, deodar, horded, redowa, wadder, warded, whored, woaded, worded.
	-3 letters: adder, adore, dared, dawed, dewar, dowed, dower, dread, haded, hared, hawed, heard, hoard, hodad, horde, oared, odder, oread, readd, rowed, waded, wader, wared, whore.
	-4 letters: aero, awed, dado, dare, dead, dear, dhow, doer, dore, draw, drew, eddo, hade, haed, hard, hare, head, hear, herd, hero, hoar, hoed, hoer, hora, howe, odea, ohed, orad, owed, read, redd, redo, rhea, road, rode, wade, ward, ware, wear, whoa, woad, word, wore.
	-5 letters: add, ado, are, awe, dad, dah, daw, dew, doe, dor, dow, ear, edh, era, had, hae, hao, haw, her, hew, hod, hoe, how, oar, odd, ode, ora, ore, owe, rad, rah, raw, red, rho, rod, roe, row, wad, wae, war, wed, wha, who, woe.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-h-o-r-w"
	+1 letter: headwords.
	+3 letters: chowderhead, downhearted, wrongheaded.
	+4 letters: chowderheads, foreshadowed, overshadowed.
	+5 letters: chowderheaded, downheartedly, wrongheadedly.
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