answer vs word

answer

noun
  • A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question. 

  • A solution to a problem. 

  • A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints. 

verb
  • To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence. 

  • To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand. 

  • To be accountable or responsible; to make amends. 

  • To be opposite, or to act in opposition. 

  • To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment. 

  • To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with. 

  • To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily. 

  • To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to. 

  • To make a reply or response to. 

  • To file a document in response to a complaint. 

  • To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute. 

word

noun
  • Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech. 

  • An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will. 

  • A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space. 

  • A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning 

  • The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes 

  • The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. . 

  • A minor reprimand. 

  • Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture. 

  • News; tidings 

  • A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register). 

  • A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words). 

  • A brief discussion or conversation. 

  • A promise; an oath or guarantee. 

  • See words. 

  • The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes 

  • A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word). 

  • The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.) 

  • A finite string that is not a command or operator. 

  • A group element, expressed as a product of group elements. 

  • Logos, Christ. 

intj
  • Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond." 

  • An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval. 

verb
  • To conjure with a word. 

  • To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something). 

  • To ply or overpower with words. 

How often have the words answer and word occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )