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r/asklinguistics
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This community is for (lay)people to ask questions about linguistics. It is not for linguistic debates, memes, etc. *Please follow the commenting guidelines in the pinned post and sidebar.* Also see the wiki for our FAQ.
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1- Questions must be about linguistics
The following are not allowed:
*What's the word for. See r/whatstheword or a language subreddit.
*Questions about word origin. See r/etymology.
*Questions of basic grammaticality/common usage. Post to r/grammar or a language subreddit.
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118,335
Earliest Submission
June 8, 2012
Earliest Comment
May 24, 2013
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Most Distinctive Words
Year
2024
Total Words in Subreddit
3,935,006
Total Words in Reddit
119,924,722,855
Rank↕ | Word↕ | Occurrences in Subreddit | Total Occurrences | Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) | Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) | Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 1,188 | 15,066 | 301.9 | 0.1 | 2403.16 | |
| #2 | 1,430 | 22,478 | 363.4 | 0.2 | 1938.84 | |
| #3 | 4,589 | 111,666 | 1166.2 | 0.9 | 1252.45 | |
| #4 | 5,023 | 129,591 | 1276.5 | 1.1 | 1181.28 | |
| #5 | 1,799 | 49,257 | 457.2 | 0.4 | 1113.08 | |
| #6 | 1,553 | 46,017 | 394.7 | 0.4 | 1028.53 | |
| #7 | 614 | 20,300 | 156.0 | 0.2 | 921.80 | |
| #8 | 3,076 | 104,299 | 781.7 | 0.9 | 898.81 | |
| #9 | 1,306 | 52,955 | 331.9 | 0.4 | 751.62 | |
| #10 | 3,389 | 137,639 | 861.2 | 1.1 | 750.40 | |
| #11 | 878 | 38,420 | 223.1 | 0.3 | 696.47 | |
| #12 | 678 | 31,089 | 172.3 | 0.3 | 664.64 | |
| #13 | 273 | 16,155 | 69.4 | 0.1 | 515.01 | |
| #14 | 321 | 19,580 | 81.6 | 0.2 | 499.64 | |
| #15 | 296 | 18,580 | 75.2 | 0.2 | 485.52 | |
| #16 | 1,791 | 113,179 | 455.1 | 0.9 | 482.27 | |
| #17 | 2,177 | 142,719 | 553.2 | 1.2 | 464.88 | |
| #18 | 1,467 | 99,131 | 372.8 | 0.8 | 451.01 | |
| #19 | 609 | 43,179 | 154.8 | 0.4 | 429.84 | |
| #20 | 232 | 16,795 | 59.0 | 0.1 | 420.99 | |
| #21 | 1,808 | 132,171 | 459.5 | 1.1 | 416.89 | |
| #22 | 221 | 16,493 | 56.2 | 0.1 | 408.37 | |
| #23 | 207 | 15,596 | 52.6 | 0.1 | 404.50 | |
| #24 | 393 | 29,955 | 99.9 | 0.2 | 399.84 | |
| #25 | 864 | 66,574 | 219.6 | 0.6 | 395.52 | |
| #26 | 623 | 48,820 | 158.3 | 0.4 | 388.91 | |
| #27 | 2,931 | 234,356 | 744.9 | 2.0 | 381.16 | |
| #28 | 420 | 35,217 | 106.7 | 0.3 | 363.46 | |
| #29 | 458 | 38,785 | 116.4 | 0.3 | 359.89 | |
| #30 | 207 | 18,332 | 52.6 | 0.2 | 344.13 | |
| #31 | 1,618 | 148,450 | 411.2 | 1.2 | 332.17 | |
| #32 | 1,173 | 109,584 | 298.1 | 0.9 | 326.22 | |
| #33 | 330 | 31,657 | 83.9 | 0.3 | 317.69 | |
| #34 | 196 | 18,828 | 49.8 | 0.2 | 317.26 | |
| #35 | 434 | 41,865 | 110.3 | 0.3 | 315.94 | |
| #36 | 324 | 32,262 | 82.3 | 0.3 | 306.07 | |
| #37 | 276 | 27,510 | 70.1 | 0.2 | 305.76 | |
| #38 | 325 | 33,573 | 82.6 | 0.3 | 295.02 | |
| #39 | 209 | 22,015 | 53.1 | 0.2 | 289.33 | |
| #40 | 16,180 | 1,784,588 | 4111.8 | 14.9 | 276.31 | |
| #41 | 240 | 27,229 | 61.0 | 0.2 | 268.62 | |
| #42 | 2,833 | 347,267 | 719.9 | 2.9 | 248.63 | |
| #43 | 149 | 18,353 | 37.9 | 0.2 | 247.42 | |
| #44 | 206 | 25,868 | 52.4 | 0.2 | 242.70 | |
| #45 | 589 | 75,086 | 149.7 | 0.6 | 239.07 | |
| #46 | 671 | 86,507 | 170.5 | 0.7 | 236.39 | |
| #47 | 275 | 35,619 | 69.9 | 0.3 | 235.30 | |
| #48 | 674 | 87,322 | 171.3 | 0.7 | 235.23 | |
| #49 | 191 | 25,219 | 48.5 | 0.2 | 230.82 | |
| #50 | 164 | 21,664 | 41.7 | 0.2 | 230.71 |
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