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wnstats(7)

WordNet 1.6 database statistics

NAME

wnstats - WordNet 1.6 database statistics

DESCRIPTION

Number of words, synsets, and senses

POSUnique StringsSynsetsTotal Word-Sense Pairs
Noun10793074488132407
Verb108061275423255
Adjective213651852331077
Adverb458336125721
Totals144684109377192460

Polysemy information

POSMonosemous WordsPolysemous WordsPolysemous Senses
and Senses
Noun940251390538382
Verb6099470717156
Adjective15992537315085
Adverb38337501888
Totals1199492473572511
POSAverage PolysemyAverage Polysemy
Including Monosemous WordsExcluding Monosemous Words
Noun1.222.76
Verb2.153.64
Adjective1.452.80
Adverb1.242.51

NOTES

Statistics for all types of adjectives and adjective satellites are combined.

The total of all unique noun, verb, adjective, and adverb strings is actually 136972. However, many strings are unique within a syntactic category, but are in more than one syntactic category. The figures in the table represent the unique strings in each syntactic category.

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