An activity in which the participant is presented with a word and asked to state the first word they can think of, often used as a game or, in psychoanalysis, a tool for analysing aspects of the unconscious.

Any English word that is interrogative, typically beginning with the letters "wh"; a question word. / (by extension) Any interrogative word from any language.

A glyph that separates words.

Interpersonal communication by digital media, especially using keyboard devices.

plural of word salad

(education) A word that a learner recognizes, or is expected to recognize, on sight.

(psychiatry) A nonsensical assemblage of words, typical of schizophrenia, Wernicke's aphasia, and some other mental disorders. / Meaningless text generated by a computer.

The ordering of the syntactic constituents of a language.

(idiomatic, meiosis) To speak to someone, usually and especially in private, often in order to admonish.

(medicine) Auditory aphasia: a condition in which the patient hears words but cannot understand them.