Meaning and example
defiantly aggressive
A truculent speech against the new government
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.648 places truculent in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 74.4% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
asceticRare
- Known by
- 74.6%
someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
torpidRare
- Known by
- 73.9%
slow and apathetic
alacrityUncommon
- Known by
- 75.1%
liveliness and eagerness
obfuscateRare
- Known by
- 73.7%
make obscure or unclear
convivialRare
- Known by
- 73.6%
occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company
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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