word vs term

word and term both are nouns.

word and term both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
word	Yes	No	Yes	No
term	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, term is a hyponym of word; that is, term is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than word:

word: a unit of language that native speakers can identify
term: a word or expression used for some particular thing

Other hyponyms of word include anagram, anaphor, antonym, opposite, opposite word, paronym, back-formation, charade, cognate, cognate word, content word, open-class word, contraction, deictic, deictic word, derivative, diminutive, dirty word, dissyllable, disyllable, descriptor, form, signifier, word form, four-letter Anglo-Saxon word, four-letter word, closed-class word, function word, catchword, guide word, guideword, head, head word, headword, heteronym, holonym, whole name, homonym, hypernym, superordinate, superordinate word, hyponym, subordinate, subordinate word, key word, hybrid, loan-blend, loanblend, loan, loanword, meronym, part name, metonym, monosyllabic word, monosyllable, coinage, neologism, neology, hapax legomenon, nonce word, oxytone, palindrome, primitive, paroxytone, partitive, polysemant, polysemantic word, polysemous word, polysyllabic word, polysyllable, proparoxytone, quantifier, logical quantifier, quantifier, reduplication, retronym, substantive, equivalent word, synonym, language, nomenclature, terminology, trisyllable, manner name, troponym, spoken word, vocable, classifier, written word, syncategorem, syncategoreme, poeticism.

word (noun)	term (noun)
a unit of language that native speakers can identify	(architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
a promise	any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
information about recent and important events	a word or expression used for some particular thing
a brief statement	one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
an exchange of views on some topic	(usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group	a limited period of time
a verbal command for action	the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
a string of bits stored in computer memory

word (verb)	term (verb)
put into words or an expression	name formally or designate with a term

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