Word Prevalence

Meaning and example

an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge

The passage used "dilettante" to mean an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge.

Plain-English interpretation

A prevalence score of 0.409 places dilettante in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 66% 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.