Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun back-formation

1 sense of back-formation

Sense 1
back-formation -- (a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it)
       => word -- (a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning")