what is a word within a word called?

Question

i know a word using all the letters from another word is an anagram but im struggling with what this one is????

Answer 1

It is called a KANGAROO WORD. Both the mother and kangaroo words have the same meaning.

illuminated - lit
salvage - save

Answer 2

A word withind a word could be called an innerword. Because it's in a word.

Answer 3

Among friends? Lucky?
The only thing I can think of is a root word. This is one with prefixes and suffixes or has been changed to form an adjective etc but other than this I would say its just a coincidence

Answer 4

a word ... um

well it's not a word is it? 'cos it's in a word already so it is contributing to soemthing else's meaning and a word that's taken out of another word is it's own word and there's already a name for that which would be either whatever that word is or "word" so that word that you're talking about doesn't really exist really... it just sorta exists

that's why there's no name for it

Answer 5

The word holding the smaller word is called the CONTAINER.

For example : In courthouse, thou is contained within courthouse.
And it follows from this that the smaller word is called the CONTAINED word.

Answer 6

Alphabet

Answer 7

This might not be quite what you hasd in mind, but....
A tmesis is a word inserted into another word.
A portmanteau word is composed of other seperate words.

Answer 8

A wondat

Answer 9

A dictionary sandwich

Answer 10

a baby word!