Term: back-formation: a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it
Candidate hypernym: word: a unit of language that native speakers can identify → 1
Candidate hypernym: genus fusarium: a form genus of mostly plant parasites some of which cause dry rot; in humans a species can cause inflammation of cornea leading to blindness → 0
Candidate hypernym: betrothed: the person to whom you are engaged → 0
Candidate hypernym: memo: a written proposal or reminder → 0
Candidate hypernym: sea trout: any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters → 0
Candidate hypernym: cacodemon: an evil spirit → 0
Candidate hypernym: dairy product: milk and butter and cheese → 0
Candidate hypernym: corpuscular theory: (physics) the theory that light is transmitted as a stream of particles → 0
Candidate hypernym: slanginess: casualness in use of language → 0
Candidate hypernym: leper: a person afflicted with leprosy → 0
Candidate hypernym: breach: a failure to perform some promised act or obligation → 0