WORD in sign language

ASL sign for "word"

How to sign "word" in American Sign Language (ASL)?

Definition: A sign, character, or sound or combination of language units that has a meaning and is signed, spoken, or written; a symbol or meaning.

Pronunciation (sign description): Dominant upright "clawed-L" handshape in front of non-dominant upright index finger, both palms facing each other in neutral space, fingertips of forefinger and thumb of dominant hand tap twice on non-dominant forefinger. The dominant handshape can be somewhere between the horizontal "G" handshape and "clawed-L".

Advanced signwords

Emerged in circa 2010s; used as a (pronoun-like) classifier in sentences.

Plural sign for "words".

Meaning: a big word.

Vocabulary

Other related signs: SIGN (as in signed word), CHARACTER (as in Asian writing), IDIOM, EXPRESSION, LOANWORD, GLOSS, JARGON, PHRASE, SLANG, sesquipedalian.

Words that you look up in or practice a set of words: GLOSSARY, DICTIONARY, LEXICON, THESAURUS, TERMINOLOGY, VOCABULARY, WORDBOOK.