Editing Nonce word (section)

==Types of nonce words==
A variety of more specific concepts used by scholars falls under the umbrella of ''nonce words'', of which overlap is also sometimes possible:
*'''nonsense word''': a nonce word that is meaningless 
**'''nonword''': a nonsense word that is not even pronounceable in a particular language
**'''[[pseudoword]]''': a nonsense word that still follows the [[phonotactics]] of a particular language and is therefore pronounceable, feeling to native speakers like a possible word (for example, in English, ''blurk'' is a pseudoword, but ''bldzkg'' is a nonword); thus, pseudowords follow a language's phonetic rules but have no meaning<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dibels.uoregon.edu/assessment/dibels/measures/nwf.php|title=DIBELS Nonsense Word Fluency, University of Oregon|access-date=2020-04-23|archive-date=2021-04-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418144230/https://dibels.uoregon.edu/assessment/dibels/measures/nwf.php|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*'''[[ghost word]]''': a nonce word authoritatively described in a [[reference work]] that turns out to have originated from a [[typo]] or other simple error
*'''[[protologism]]''': a nonce word that has achieved repeated usage, perhaps even by a small group but not beyond that (an intermediate step towards a [[neologism]])
*'''stunt word''': a nonce word intentionally coined to demonstrate the creator's cleverness or elicit an emotional reaction, such as admiration or laughter; such words are often noted in the works of [[Dr. Seuss]], as in "Sometimes I am quite certain there's a Jertain in the curtain", in which the one-time use of ''Jertain'' refers to some unspecified fictional creature purely invented to create a whimsical rhyme with ''certain'' and ''curtain''<ref>{{cite web |title=STUNT WORD |publisher=Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language |date=3 April 2019 |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref>

===Similar or related concepts===
Many types of other words can also be meaningful nonce words, as is true of most [[sniglet]]s (words, often stunt words, explicitly coined in the absence of any relevant dictionary word). Other types of misinterpretations or humorous re-wordings can also be nonce words, as may occur in [[word play]], such as certain examples of [[puns]], [[spoonerisms]], [[malapropism]]s, etc. Furthermore, meaningless nonce words can occur unintentionally or spontaneously, for instance through [[Error (linguistics)|error]]s ([[typographical error|typographical]] or otherwise) or through [[keysmash]]es.