Paste word under cursor into new line

Question

In normal mode I want to be able to select a word and when I press <leader>i yield the following string in next line, The word is <word_that_was_highlighted>. Is it possible to do this in vim? I attempted a solution using nnoremap like as follows but that didn't work.

nnoremap <leader>i :let @h=@*<c-r>"hp

Here I was attempting to paste the content of register * into h, and then paste that onto a new line.

Answer 1

As discussed in the comments you are looking for the following mapping

nnoremap <leader>i yiwoThe word is <Esc>p
                   yiw                     Yank the word under the cursor
                      o                    Create a new line under the current one and enter insert mode
                       The word is         Type this string literraly
                                   <Esc>   Switch back to normal mode
                                        p  Past the word you yanked before