metaplasm

As nouns the difference between metaplasm and null

is that metaplasm is (linguistics) any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As nouns the difference between metaplast and metaplasm

is that metaplast is (grammar) a word having more than one form of the root while metaplasm is (linguistics) any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.

Antisthecon is a hyponym of metaplasm.

As a noun metaplasm is

(linguistics) any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.

Metaplasm is a hyponym of metathesis.

As nouns the difference between metathesis and metaplasm

is that metathesis is the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word, such as in ask as /æks while metaplasm is any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.

Synaloepha is a hyponym of metaplasm.

As a noun metaplasm is

(linguistics) any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.

Ecthlipsis is a hyponym of metaplasm.

As nouns the difference between ecthlipsis and metaplasm

is that ecthlipsis is (linguistics|latin prosody) the dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel while metaplasm is (linguistics) any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.

Metaplasm is a hyponym of ellipsis.

As nouns the difference between ellipsis and metaplasm

is that ellipsis is He is faster than she. (Here, a trailing “is fast” is omitted, grammatically required, and implied. while metaplasm is any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.

Apocope is a hyponym of metaplasm.

As a verb apocope

is .

As a noun metaplasm is

(linguistics) any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.

Aphaeresis is a hyponym of metaplasm.

As nouns the difference between aphaeresis and metaplasm

is that aphaeresis is (uk|canadian) while metaplasm is (linguistics) any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.