User:Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV/self examples

Words which are examples of themselves (see also autological):


 * noun
 * word
 * abbrev.
 * abbr.
 * proparoxytone
 * tpyo
 * eggcorn
 * string
 * set (of characters)
 * array (of characters)
 * mondegreen
 * letters
 * archaiſm
 * vocable
 * mispelling
 * chars
 * characters
 * psæudoarchaïſm (for pseudo- archaism)
 * plurals
 * singular
 * methatesis (invention; metathesis of metathesis)
 * adjectival
 * centumisation
 * clbuttic
 * protologistical
 * cranberry morpheme
 * satemisation
 * prefixed (with pre-)
 * suffixed (with -ed)
 * hog-morse
 * RAS syndrome
 * lithp
 * more comparative
 * redundantly redundant redundancy
 * geason
 * polysyllable
 * seldsome
 * to verb
 * keming (neologism: “result of bad kerning”)
 * sum of parts
 * common (common is a common word)
 * polysyllabic
 * multisyllabic
 * sesquipedalian
 * short
 * st-st-stammering
 * st-st-stuttering
 * mongrelism
 * nonadverbial
 * adverbially
 * alphabetic
 * alphabetical
 * alphanumeric
 * autological
 * antonym (is an antonym of synonym)
 * incorect
 * haplogy
 * pentasyllabic
 * verbified
 * sycope
 * apocop
 * Grecism
 * Hellenism
 * pheresis
 * monosemous
 * hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia-inducing
 * most superlative
 * verlan/vesre
 * txtspk
 * igpay atinlay
 * B.A.C.K.R.O.N.Y.M. (Backward Acronym Created Knowingly and Retroactively on Other Names You Mentioned)
 * LTR (left-to-right, written beginning on the left hand side)
 * I dile echt
 * wug word

Context dependent
Where the word is autological only in a certain context:

Text

 * writing
 * written
 * text (where it is displayed as text)
 * pixels (where it is displayed in a pixelised screen)
 * hyphen- ated
 * desrever
 * uʍop-əpᴉsdn
 * CAPITALISED
 * uncapitalised
 * invisible (when the word can’t be seen)
 * visible (when the reader can see the word)
 * bold
 * italic
 * underlined
 * readable
 * unreadable (where word is not visible to the reader/listener)
 * wikilink
 * wikified
 * struckthrough
 * bluelink
 * redlink
 * big
 * small
 * large
 * tiny
 * great
 * little
 * ALL CAPS

Sound

 * unwritten (where word is spoken or otherwise communicated without writing)
 * sayable
 * utterable
 * extant
 * sound
 * spoken (when someone spoke the word, as opposed to it being generated by a loudspeaker)
 * sound wave
 * wave
 * loud, quiet, whispered, etc. (when the word is being spoken in such a way)
 * pronounceable

Other

 * effable
 * comprehensible
 * knowable
 * searchable
 * real
 * existent
 * usable
 * foreign (where reader/listener is not a native English speaker)
 * writable
 * spellable
 * typeable
 * known (if the reader/listener knows the word “known”)
 * unknown (if the reader/listener doesn’t know the word “unknown”)

Mass entries

 * Most words prefixed with non- describe themselves: for example, nonaerodynamic (the word) is not aerodynamic. See Category:English words prefixed with non-.
 * Colour names. For example: green (where displayed in green colour). See Category:en:Colors.
 * Onomatopoeia. Words which sound like the sound they describe. See Category:English onomatopoeias.
 * Language names in the respective languages, like English or português. See Category:Languages.

Phonemes
Interestingly, the names of many phonetic concepts begin with an example of the concept:


 * consonant
 * liquid
 * nasal
 * plosive
 * fricative
 * lateral
 * bilabial
 * retroflex (some dialects)
 * voiced
 * rounded
 * unrounded
 * sibilant
 * laminal