Meaning and example
an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
The passage used "excoriation" to mean an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.083 places excoriation in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 53.3% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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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.
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