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NAME

wnstats - WordNet 1.6 database statistics

DESCRIPTION

Number of words, synsets, and senses

POSUnique Strings Synsets Total Senses
Noun 94474 66025 116317
Verb 10319 12127 22066
Adjective 20170 17915 29881
Adverb 4546 3575 5677
Totals 121962 99642 173941

Polysemy information

POSMonosemous Words
and Senses
Polysemous Words Polysemous Senses
Noun 81909 12564 34408
Verb 5751 4567 16315
Adjective 14795 5374 15086
Adverb 3795 750 1882
Totals 106250 23255 67691

POS Average Polysemy
Including Monosemous Words
Average Polysemy
Excluding Monosemous Words
Noun 1.23 2.73
Verb 2.13 3.57
Adjective 1.48 2.80
Adverb 1.24 2.50

NOTES

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

The total of all unique noun, verb, adjective, and adverb strings is greater than 121962. However, many strings are unique within a syntactic category, but are in more than one syntactic category. The figure in the table represents the unique strings when all syntactic categories are combined.


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