Meaning and example
common sense
She has great social nous
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of -0.284 places nous in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 38.7% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 38.1%
a chemical reaction in which an ester is heated with an alkali (especially the alkaline hydrolysis of a fat or oil to make soap)
- Known by
- 37.9%
a light meal or repast
- Known by
- 39.6%
used of persons only; having great physical beauty
- Known by
- 39.7%
nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America
- Known by
- 37.6%
composed of or containing bone
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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