Word Prevalence

Meaning and example

a feeling of anger caused by being offended

He took offence at my question

Plain-English interpretation

A prevalence score of 0.973 places umbrage in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 83.8% of people in the source dataset.

Related words

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Similar-prevalence words

egregiousUncommon

Known by: 83.8%

conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

acrimonyUncommon

Known by: 83.8%

a rough and bitter manner

repudiateUncommon

Known by: 83.9%

cast off

engenderUncommon

Known by: 84%

call forth

assuageUncommon

Known by: 84.1%

cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

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.