05-08-2019, 04:07 AM | #1 |
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What's the most unpopular word you know?
The Google NGram viewer can show you how often a word has been used in books.
If we restrict to the 20th century, and add a smoothing on 10, what result do you get for the year 2000 for your word? My current lowest is footling - just 0.0000025%! What's the most unpopular word you know? (Update: Words have to have an entry in the google list to count.) Leader board: 0.0000000101% - Infandous - drjd 0.0000000156% - philomathy - drjd 0.00000015% - haulageway - cromag 0.0000003% - ecdysiast - pdurrant Last edited by pdurrant; 05-10-2019 at 08:59 AM. |
05-08-2019, 04:10 AM | #2 |
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Oh - terpsichorean! 0.0000015%!
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05-08-2019, 06:21 AM | #4 |
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Pogonotrophy
Found none of the Ngrams! [Pogonotrophy: The act of cultivating, or growing and grooming, a mustache, beard, sideburns or other facial hair.] Last edited by drjd; 05-08-2019 at 06:24 AM. Reason: Added link |
05-08-2019, 09:22 AM | #5 |
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It has to appear in the ngrams list to count. Just not being used in any book that google has indexed isn't good enough.
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0.0000003%. A very respectable score. |
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05-09-2019, 04:31 AM | #8 |
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haulageway - 0.00000014%
This is all just a clever way to improve your performance on the Word Disassociation thread, isn't it! Last edited by cromag; 05-09-2019 at 04:37 AM. |
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I'm impressed. Twice as unpopular as Leptsome and ecdysiast. And yes, you've worked out my dastardly plan! |
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05-09-2019, 07:11 PM | #10 |
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I'm not sure where the list in question can be found. That said I'd guess the most unpopular word could be taxes.
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mandraulic - google ngram cant find any. But there's one in here https://www.canberratimes.com.au/sto...ts-personnel//
And Ridley Scott has used it in interviews - means labour intensive. |
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uxoricide - reached a peak in 1995 with 0.0000006992%, lowest point in 1943 with 0.0000002473%
teosinte 0.0000086142 ambidexterous 0.0000006182% from now on, I am going to cheat. On this page http://testyourvocab.com/faq i found following link: http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readme.html PLease note, that despite using a list I am only trying words that I can understand without looking them up in a dictionary. africanised 0.0000000800% africanise 0.0000000603% annualising 0.00000005564% Unimaginatively 0.0000000550% baitboxes 0.0000000589% ... to be continued .... |
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