Meaning and example
treat with contemptuous disregard
Flout the rules
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.028 places flout in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 85.2% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
acquiesceUncommon
- Known by
- 85.1%
to agree or express agreement
perniciousUncommon
- Known by
- 85.3%
exceedingly harmful
onerousUncommon
- Known by
- 85.5%
not easily borne; wearing
credulityUncommon
- Known by
- 84.8%
tendency to believe readily
vacillateUncommon
- Known by
- 85.6%
be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
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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