Meaning and example
the indistinct sound of people whispering
A soft susurrus of conversation
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of -0.648 places susurration in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 25.6% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
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- 24%
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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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