---
title: unit
framework: naturallanguage
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: naturallanguage/nltokenizer/unit
---

# unit

The linguistic unit that this tokenizer uses.

## Declaration

```swift
var unit: NLTokenUnit { get }
```

## See Also

### Configuring a tokenizer

- [string](naturallanguage/nltokenizer/string.md)
- [setLanguage(_:)](naturallanguage/nltokenizer/setlanguage(_:).md)
- [NLTokenizer.Attributes](naturallanguage/nltokenizer/attributes.md)