He could make out individual words, but the context made no sense.

The table may also store the frequency of each individual word.

At least some individual words seemed to resonate, just a little.

They were discussing him, but as yet he could make no sense of the individual words.

She could make out individual words and phrases in the noise.

The field of visual word recognition studies how people read individual words.

He had to bring the picture close to his face to make out the individual words.

Here, however, it is not possible to identify target and source beyond individual words.

The voice was so low he still could not make out individual words.

Sometimes the changes were very small differences in individual words.