Meaning and example
a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
On the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not play
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 2.310 places assumption in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 99.4% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
No indexed related-word pages are available for this entry yet.
Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 99.5%
the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth
- Known by
- 99.5%
give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
- Known by
- 99.5%
extended verbal expression in speech or writing
- Known by
- 99.3%
an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole
- Known by
- 99.3%
of an obscure nature
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.
Definitions and related terms are derived from WordNet. This page is part of the curated indexable word set.