Meaning and example
a speech of violent denunciation
The passage used "tirade" to mean a speech of violent denunciation.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.516 places tirade in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 94% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
ubiquitousCommon
- Known by
- 94%
being present everywhere at once
archaicCommon
- Known by
- 94.1%
so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
capitulateCommon
- Known by
- 93.8%
surrender under agreed conditions
capriciousCommon
- Known by
- 93.7%
changeable
idiosyncrasyCommon
- Known by
- 94.2%
a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual
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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