Meaning and example
the process of coughing up and spitting out
The passage used "expectoration" to mean the process of coughing up and spitting out.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.305 places expectoration in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 62.1% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
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- 61.9%
given to lying
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the production of a canal or a conversion to canals
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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