Meaning and example
complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles
In a world where financial probity may not be widespread
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.149 places probity in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 56% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence 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.
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