Meaning and example
shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
The passage used "guile" to mean shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.263 places guile in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 90.1% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
veracityCommon
- Known by
- 90.1%
unwillingness to tell lies
theoremCommon
- Known by
- 90.1%
a proposition deducible from basic postulates
catharsisCommon
- Known by
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(psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
coercionUncommon
- Known by
- 89.7%
the act of compelling by force of authority
facetiousUncommon
- Known by
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cleverly amusing in tone
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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