What is a word?

A word can be isolated from a sentence as the single smallest element of a sentence that carries meaning. This smallest single isolated part of a sentence is called a word.

Please refer to the morphemes definition again and try to relate it to the definition of word. The reason why I have told you to do this is that you may confuse words and morphemes, or maybe you are not sure what the difference is between them. It is completely fine that you have thought in this way. They are confusing if you do not understand them properly.

The definitions look similar, but there is a very small difference between words and morphemes. We can see the differences in the following table: