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Word en kirke
English translation
Word class
noun
Imageability
high (6.84)
Subjective AoA
Usage frequency per million words
high (107.15)
No. phonological neighbours
some (10)
Phonological neighbourhood density
medium (143.15)
Phonological neighbours virke (50), kirken (35), virket (33), kirker (7), kikke (6), kirka (6), pirke (1), lirke (<1), kjerke (<1), dirke (<1)
Word length
No. letters 5
No. sounds 5
No. syllables 2
Word structure
Derivation? false
Compound? false
Sound structure
First sound fricative? true
Starts in consonant cluster? false
Noun properties
Grammatical gender masculine
Mainly used in plural? false
Mass noun? false

Norwegian Words
A lexical database of a selection of Norwegian words, developed by the Research Group in Clinical Linguistics and Language Acquisition at the Department of Linguistic and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo. All requests should be directed to Pernille Hansen. This database can be used freely, but please refer to the database like this:

Lind, M., Simonsen, H.G., Hansen, P., Holm, E. & Mevik, B.-H. (2015) Norwegian Words: A lexical database for clinicians and researchers. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 29(4), p. 276-290. Downloaded DATE from: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/ordforradet/en/

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