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A list of the most popular English words.
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Word "eugenia" ? #4

Open a-raccoon opened 2 years ago

a-raccoon commented 2 years ago

These are 25,322 words that everyone should be familiar with.

I dare open a can of worms by inquiring about the popularity of the words in popular.txt, but...

eugenia

Eugenia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae.

This seems to be a common issue with most word lists, is they tend to incorporate a lot of graduate level science and medicine lingo. It's hard to know where to draw the line.

busterbeam commented 1 year ago

A word may be popular but is it common or esoteric? reading the Wiktionary definition, popular wouldn't discriminate for specialist words.

Maybe this shows how popular biology, or biological examples in literature are.