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As of February 8, 2024
r/technicalwriting
Technical Writing
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For people who take the unbelievably complicated things that scientists and engineers devise and make it understandable for non-technical people.
You may publish libraries of papers and manuals but your name will never be on them. You probably describe your work to other people as: "I write instructions for a living." Oversimplified? Yes. But, that's what we do. Short, sweet, to the point, and accurate.
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Total Submissions
9,341
Total Comments
75,181
Earliest Submission
November 28, 2012
Earliest Comment
December 6, 2012
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2024
Total Words in Subreddit
1,717,300
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 | 746 | 22,506 | 434.4 | 0.2 | 2314.74 | |
| #2 | 756 | 33,199 | 440.2 | 0.3 | 1590.23 | |
| #3 | 375 | 44,678 | 218.4 | 0.4 | 586.14 | |
| #4 | 189 | 26,243 | 110.1 | 0.2 | 502.93 | |
| #5 | 543 | 122,372 | 316.2 | 1.0 | 309.87 | |
| #6 | 226 | 57,178 | 131.6 | 0.5 | 276.02 | |
| #7 | 57 | 15,305 | 33.2 | 0.1 | 260.08 | |
| #8 | 257 | 71,774 | 149.7 | 0.6 | 250.05 | |
| #9 | 148 | 41,966 | 86.2 | 0.3 | 246.28 | |
| #10 | 55 | 16,769 | 32.0 | 0.1 | 229.04 | |
| #11 | 504 | 157,603 | 293.5 | 1.3 | 223.32 | |
| #12 | 56 | 18,903 | 32.6 | 0.2 | 206.88 | |
| #13 | 49 | 16,717 | 28.5 | 0.1 | 204.69 | |
| #14 | 1,645 | 564,207 | 957.9 | 4.7 | 203.61 | |
| #15 | 121 | 41,833 | 70.5 | 0.3 | 201.99 | |
| #16 | 3,129 | 1,102,709 | 1822.0 | 9.2 | 198.16 | |
| #17 | 693 | 259,696 | 403.5 | 2.2 | 186.35 | |
| #18 | 210 | 80,503 | 122.3 | 0.7 | 182.17 | |
| #19 | 204 | 79,841 | 118.8 | 0.7 | 178.43 | |
| #20 | 7,870 | 3,243,334 | 4582.8 | 27.0 | 169.45 | |
| #21 | 79 | 33,342 | 46.0 | 0.3 | 165.46 | |
| #22 | 4,141 | 1,793,312 | 2411.3 | 15.0 | 161.25 | |
| #23 | 42 | 19,150 | 24.5 | 0.2 | 153.16 | |
| #24 | 568 | 265,247 | 330.8 | 2.2 | 149.54 | |
| #25 | 88 | 44,929 | 51.2 | 0.4 | 136.78 | |
| #26 | 61 | 31,513 | 35.5 | 0.3 | 135.18 | |
| #27 | 87 | 51,399 | 50.7 | 0.4 | 118.20 | |
| #28 | 61 | 37,700 | 35.5 | 0.3 | 112.99 | |
| #29 | 50 | 31,463 | 29.1 | 0.3 | 110.98 | |
| #30 | 89 | 64,252 | 51.8 | 0.5 | 96.73 | |
| #31 | 75 | 59,927 | 43.7 | 0.5 | 87.40 | |
| #32 | 200 | 165,941 | 116.5 | 1.4 | 84.17 | |
| #33 | 2,292 | 1,940,975 | 1334.7 | 16.2 | 82.46 | |
| #34 | 144 | 127,416 | 83.9 | 1.1 | 78.92 | |
| #35 | 30 | 26,552 | 17.5 | 0.2 | 78.90 | |
| #36 | 67 | 60,373 | 39.0 | 0.5 | 77.50 | |
| #37 | 31 | 28,128 | 18.1 | 0.2 | 76.96 | |
| #38 | 60 | 56,138 | 34.9 | 0.5 | 74.64 | |
| #39 | 361 | 364,642 | 210.2 | 3.0 | 69.14 | |
| #40 | 246 | 248,939 | 143.2 | 2.1 | 69.01 | |
| #41 | 61 | 63,615 | 35.5 | 0.5 | 66.96 | |
| #42 | 71 | 75,113 | 41.3 | 0.6 | 66.01 | |
| #43 | 2,400 | 2,539,486 | 1397.5 | 21.2 | 66.00 | |
| #44 | 122 | 130,408 | 71.0 | 1.1 | 65.33 | |
| #45 | 189 | 203,137 | 110.1 | 1.7 | 64.97 | |
| #46 | 146 | 160,962 | 85.0 | 1.3 | 63.34 | |
| #47 | 34 | 38,140 | 19.8 | 0.3 | 62.25 | |
| #48 | 182 | 207,523 | 106.0 | 1.7 | 61.24 | |
| #49 | 107 | 127,264 | 62.3 | 1.1 | 58.71 | |
| #50 | 130 | 156,658 | 75.7 | 1.3 | 57.95 |
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