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# NSLinguisticTaggerUnit

Constants representing linguistic units.

```
enum NSLinguisticTaggerUnit
```

## Overview

You use these constants with the [`availableTagSchemes(for:language:)`](/documentation/Foundation/NSLinguisticTagger/availableTagSchemes(for:language:)) method as well as the [`tag(for:at:unit:scheme:orthography:tokenRange:)`](/documentation/Foundation/NSLinguisticTagger/tag(for:at:unit:scheme:orthography:tokenRange:)),  [`tags(in:unit:scheme:options:tokenRanges:)`](/documentation/Foundation/NSLinguisticTagger/tags(in:unit:scheme:options:tokenRanges:)), and [`enumerateTags(in:unit:scheme:options:using:)`](/documentation/Foundation/NSLinguisticTagger/enumerateTags(in:unit:scheme:options:using:)) methods.

## Topics

### Constants

[`NSLinguisticTaggerUnit.document`](/documentation/Foundation/NSLinguisticTaggerUnit/document)

The document in its entirety.

[`NSLinguisticTaggerUnit.paragraph`](/documentation/Foundation/NSLinguisticTaggerUnit/paragraph)

An individual paragraph.

[`NSLinguisticTaggerUnit.sentence`](/documentation/Foundation/NSLinguisticTaggerUnit/sentence)

An individual sentence.

[`NSLinguisticTaggerUnit.word`](/documentation/Foundation/NSLinguisticTaggerUnit/word)

An individual word.


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