The phrase "a distinctive word" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a word that stands out due to its uniqueness or specific meaning in a particular context.
Example: "In the poem, the author uses a distinctive word to evoke strong emotions in the reader."
Alternatives: "a unique term" or "a notable word".
You could pick a simple, descriptive name (Etoys); a meaningless but distinctive word (Amazon); or a random fabrication (Ebay).
All the French jokes, and in particular the distinctive word plays, are given a new English spin, often with very little link to the original.
Others thought that the use of the distinctive word was more likely a ruse to throw people off the scent of the true whistleblower.
Standard Norwegian and most dialects have distinctive word tones.
With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine and Brenda Neotomie) Prolific Twine creator Porpentine's distinctive word palette often creates vivid yet alien spaces, with imagery alternately vulgar and beautiful in turns, but this particular game asks of the player a particularly-intimate task: to draw symbols on your own skin while playing.
This week we begin reading from our Torah the book known in English as Numbers - which, in Hebrew, is named for its first distinctive word, the book of Bemidbar, the book of "In the Wilderness".
The prophetic reading paired with the start of Deuteronomy suggests a way - and, in fact, quite poignantly, this entire, doleful Sabbath is not named in the usual manner, for the first distinctive word of its reading from the Torah, but rather for the first word of its prophetic reading.
Previous work had established that phonologically similar (rhyming) words are harder to recall in immediate serial tasks than phonologically distinctive word lists.
Using XPCT, Vito Mocella and others revealed letters from the Greek alphabet and several distinctive words on two fire-damaged scrolls, one rolled, the other unrolled.
In Jewish tradition, segments of scripture are named for their first distinctive words, and so Lamentations in Hebrew is called "Eicha" - literally, the book of "How" - "How does the city sit solitary that was full of people, how is she become like a widow" (Lamentations 1 1).
