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"English non-lemma forms",
"English noun forms",
"English nouns",
"English pluralia tantum",
"English verb forms",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations"
],
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"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "papers",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"word": "paper"
}
],
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],
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]
],
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]
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]
},
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]
},
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"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
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}
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{
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"2": "noun form",
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},
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"name": "head"
}
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],
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"word": "paper"
}
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],
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]
],
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]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈpeipeɾs/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈpei̯.peɾs]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eipeɾs"
}
],
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}
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"called_from": "form_description/20250107",
"msg": "Form tags without form: desc='plural plural-only', tagsets=[('plural', 'plural-only')]",
"path": [
"papers"
],
"section": "English",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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