Noun
non-word (plural non-words)
Any sequence of sounds or letters which is not considered to be a word, whether through an accidental gap (for example, phextapher-styphren) or through a systematic gap (for example, fssstpklyitnbkdv).
Lee Sunghee and Hwang Mina, the authors of the Korean study, also found that hyperlexics have fewer errors in non-word reading than non-hyperlexics. Source: Internet
The non-word "dord" was excised, and the definition of the adjacent entry " Doré furnace" was expanded from "A furnace for refining dore bullion " to "a furnace in which dore bullion is refined" to close up the space. Source: Internet