Hello, About "term", "vocable" and "word". We consider a text which contains words as following: TOTO TITI TOTA TITO TOTO TI TITO TA TATA There are nine words but only seven vocables or terms. TOTO TITI TOTA TITO TI TA TATA A vocable is a part of dictionary and a word occurs many time within a text. Bye, AC.