Word Prevalence

Meaning and example

be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action

He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement

Plain-English interpretation

A prevalence score of 1.046 places vacillate in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 85.6% of people in the source dataset.

Related words

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Similar-prevalence words

onerousUncommon

Known by: 85.5%

not easily borne; wearing

diatribeUncommon

Known by: 85.8%

thunderous verbal attack

perniciousUncommon

Known by: 85.3%

exceedingly harmful

incontrovertibleUncommon

Known by: 85.9%

impossible to deny or disprove

floutUncommon

Known by: 85.2%

treat with contemptuous disregard

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.