Word-form

A word-form is a syntagmatic unit between the morpheme and the phrase that is generally taken by linguists to correspond to the element written between two spaces in many orthographies. There is a large literature about the definition of the word-form, which is difficult to summarize here.

Synonyms

 * grammatical word (this term is probably more common in English than word-form)
 * morphological word
 * syntactic word

Origin
This term is probably a translation of Russian slovoforma.

Other languages

 * French mot-forme
 * German Wortform