Word Prevalence

Meaning and example

a recklessly extravagant consumer

The passage used "prodigal" to mean a recklessly extravagant consumer.

Plain-English interpretation

A prevalence score of 1.658 places prodigal in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 95.6% of people in the source dataset.

Related words

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Similar-prevalence words

enigmaticCommon

Known by: 95.6%

not clear to the understanding

deferentialCommon

Known by: 95.5%

showing deference

precludeCommon

Known by: 95.5%

keep from happening or arising; make impossible

circumspectCommon

Known by: 95.4%

heedful of potential consequences

hyperboleCommon

Known by: 95.4%

extravagant exaggeration

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.