Word Prevalence

Meaning and example

(immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody

The passage used "affinity" to mean (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody.

Plain-English interpretation

A prevalence score of 1.969 places affinity in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 98% of people in the source dataset.

Related words

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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.