Meaning and example
of very poor quality or condition
Deplorable housing conditions in the inner city
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.058 places execrable in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 52.3% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 52.4%
underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do something improper or unlawful
- Known by
- 52.3%
the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks
- Known by
- 52.6%
marked by blithe unconcern
- Known by
- 52.1%
(philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist
- Known by
- 52.1%
a container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints)
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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