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wordnet

noun

wordnet is spelled W-O-R-D-N-E-T: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, wordnet means “A semantically structured lexical database” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of wordnet is wordnets.

How many letters and syllables are in wordnet?

Letters7: W-O-R-D-N-E-T
In writingabout once in every 22 million words; the 143,405th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is wordnet?

Wordnet appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of wordnet

  • wordnets plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does wordnet mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A semantically structured lexical database.

    Bilingual corpora can be used for synset validation in a more fruitful way, especially having in mind the request that all synsets from a wordnet for a language other than English have to be associated, if possible, with an English synset u

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does wordnet come from?

From word + net.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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