Meaning and example
detect with the senses
The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.939 places discern in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 97.9% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 97.8%
having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited
- Known by
- 97.8%
a fraudulent or duplicitous representation
- Known by
- 97.9%
a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
- Known by
- 97.7%
a feeling of intense dislike
- Known by
- 98%
the state of cohering or sticking together
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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