"nonword" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nonwords",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nonword (plural nonwords)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "non-word"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Zevin and Joanisse, Orthographic and Metrical Cues to English Stress",
          "text": "We used a nonword naming task to examine how English speakers assign stress to novel phonological forms.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Commentary on the 2004 African Scrabble Championships",
          "text": "Trevor quickly challenged my nonword and then cleverly played out with TITIAN",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of non-word"
      ],
      "id": "en-nonword-en-noun-MJvmAiDV",
      "links": [
        [
          "non-word",
          "non-word#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nonword"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nonwords",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nonword (plural nonwords)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "non-word"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Zevin and Joanisse, Orthographic and Metrical Cues to English Stress",
          "text": "We used a nonword naming task to examine how English speakers assign stress to novel phonological forms.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Commentary on the 2004 African Scrabble Championships",
          "text": "Trevor quickly challenged my nonword and then cleverly played out with TITIAN",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of non-word"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "non-word",
          "non-word#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nonword"
}