What is the term for a word made up from the result of blending two words to make one (not compound word)?

Question

It's not compound word. I think it's a fairly common vocab word.

Answer 1

Perhaps you might mean 'coinage' or 'coining', which are terms for inventing words?'

'Neologism' might also be the one you're after: 'neo' meaning 'new', 'log' from Greek 'logos' meaning 'word'...

Perhaps the word 'polyonym', meaning 'a name consisting of several words' might do, but that's not really a common word...

EDIT:
To address the concerns of rainbowunweaver2002, a portmanteau is certainly another option, and I don't know why I didn't think of it initially! In linguistics, we refer to portmanteaux simply as 'blends'. A portmanteau is specifically a blend of two words form two different grammatic categories, though, and is a specific type of neology, or new-word formation.

Appropriately, 'portmanteau' itself is a coined term, made in the very way a portmanteau is made: two grammatically different words assembled to make a new word. In French, 'port' is from the verb 'porter' meaning 'to carry' and 'manteau' is a noun, which means 'coat'.

(also: beware of noble vs. Nobel...)

Answer 2

While I realize that "portmanteau," and "portmanteaux" [morphemes] are, indeed the correct terms for words made up as a result of blending two words to make a new word, I feel it should be noted that "contractions" are comprised, virtually, in the same fashion as portmanteaux.

Though contractions in our language generally consist of auxiliary verbs and pronouns, and boast an apostrophe, they too, might be considered a blend of words resulting in a new word.

To the layperson, who has no interest in our lexicon or grammar and syntax, it seems to me that "contraction" could be the 'fairly common vocabulary word' the asker is looking for.

Cheers.

Answer 3

The previous answer is misleading. What is meant is:
A new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings; "`smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog'"; "`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'"; "`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau"
A portmanteau is actually a big leather case, something like a box. L. Caroll in 'Alice in Wonderland' used the term for the 1st time.
By the way, a snob is someone 'sine nobilitate', someone without real nobel descent - yet another portmanteau word.

Answer 4

There's "neologism", although 1) I don't know if you'd consider it "fairly common" and 2) it is less specific than "compound word" since "compound word" specifically means two or more words joined together, whereas "neologism" simply means "new word" and a word could be new without being compound.

Answer 5

complex?