Home › Words › W › wordhoodwordhoodwordhood means the quality of being a word.EtymologyFrom word + -hood.nounThe quality of being a word.e.g.“You can call them nonstandard, colloquial, informal, casual, slangy, or even signs of the apocalypse, but there's no reason to deny them wordhood.” — 2009, Ben Zimmer, Mailbag Friday: "Texted":Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).