Meaning and example
spreading or spread throughout
Armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.812 places pervasive in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 97% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 96.9%
uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
- Known by
- 97.1%
establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- Known by
- 96.9%
inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits
- Known by
- 96.9%
the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)
- Known by
- 96.8%
deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
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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