A vicinal is a
logological term for a
word
A word is a basic element of language that carries an semantics, objective or pragmatics, practical semantics, meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. Despite the fact that language speakers often have an intuitive grasp of w ...
where all its letters have "
alphabetic
An alphabet is a standardized set of basic written graphemes (called letters) that represent the phonemes of certain spoken languages. Not all writing systems represent language in this way; in a syllabary, each character represents a syllab ...
neighbors". For instance, if a word has an "O" in it, to be a vicinal it must also have an "N" and/or a "P". If none of the letters have alphabetic neighbors, it is known as a nonvicinal.
Some vicinals:
*Blacksmith
*Documents
*Done
*Fights
*High
*On
*Sport
*This
Some nonvicinals:
*As
*In
*Intelligibility
*Lacqueying
*Mississippi
*Mortgage
*The
Some words that are neither:
*About
*Almanac
*Dictionary
*Times
*Wisconsin
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