Lexical Gap
Definition:
A lexical or accidental gap is a well formed but absent word in a language.
Actual words are a subset of possible words, and the words that are in PossibleWords but not in ActualWords are the lexical gaps.
Examples:
"Communist" is a valid English word, and its existence means that "Communite" and "Communian" were blocked, becoming lexical gaps.
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