Word Prevalence

Meaning and example

mixed feelings or emotions

The passage used "ambivalence" to mean mixed feelings or emotions.

Plain-English interpretation

A prevalence score of 1.784 places ambivalence in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 96.8% of people in the source dataset.

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Source attribution

Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.