Nonpattern
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Absence of pattern.
"As opposed to the more strict requirements of non-repetition in nonpattern words such as those in (1), the term isogram can be construed more widely to capture the notion of any word in which each letter of the alphabet occurs exactly the same number of times (cf. Borgmann 1974)."
Example
More examples"As opposed to the more strict requirements of non-repetition in nonpattern words such as those in (1), the term isogram can be construed more widely to capture the notion of any word in which each letter of the alphabet occurs exactly the same number of times (cf. Borgmann 1974)."
Etymology
From non- + pattern. Piecewise doublet of nonpatron.
More for "nonpattern"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.