Meaning and example
an informal conversation
The passage used "confabulation" to mean an informal conversation.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.581 places confabulation in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 72.2% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 72%
the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft
- Known by
- 71.7%
stubbornly resistant to authority or control
- Known by
- 71.5%
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
- Known by
- 71.5%
pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- Known by
- 72.9%
brief and to the point; effectively cut short
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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