Word Prevalence

Meaning and example

invulnerable to fear or intimidation

Audacious explorers

Plain-English interpretation

A prevalence score of 1.770 places intrepid in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 96.6% of people in the source dataset.

Related words

audacious

Similar-prevalence words

exacerbateCommon

Known by: 96.7%

make worse

augmentCommon

Known by: 96.6%

enlarge or increase

ambivalenceCommon

Known by: 96.8%

mixed feelings or emotions

inertCommon

Known by: 96.8%

unable to move or resist motion

somberCommon

Known by: 96.8%

lacking brightness or color; dull

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.