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poghammarskjold's Word DNA

The vocabulary behind the scores.

Ancestry

Where your words came from, traced through 164 etymologies.

Latin22%French6.1%Old English4.9%Middle English4.3%Ancient Greek3.7%Proto-Indo-European3.7%Swedish1.8%Proto-Germanic1.8%Sanskrit1.8%Old French1.2%German1.2%Icelandic0.6%

Family tree

281 words from 273 roots. 16 of your finds are another form of a word you already had.

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Word class

noun59.8%
adjective19.9%
verb17.8%
adverb2.2%
pronoun0.4%

Morphology

The pieces your words are built from.

-ic 8-al 6-er 5-ly 5-ed 3-ity 3-man 3-ous 3-ate 2-cy 2

Phonetics

Counted from IPA, so this covers the 140 of your 281 words that have a pronunciation on file. Words without one are not counted here.

2.3avg syllables
ASEXUALITY/ˌeɪ.sɛk.ʃuːˈæ.lɪ.ti/6 syllables · longest of the 140 we can pronounce

Your territory

How many people have ever found each of your words.

4

only you, ever

no one else has ever found these

2

you found it first

others have since followed · the Pioneers wall

1-4 finders12
5-19 finders35
20-99 finders107
100+ finders127
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How far back it goes

Every traced word has a deepest named ancestor, and every ancestor language has a period. This is when those languages were spoken — not how old the words are. The notch on each bar is where everybody else sits.

Reconstructed10.3%-2
Ancient51.7%+4.3
Medieval19.5%+0
Modern18.4%-2.4

Everyone’s, side by side: the Word DNA of OUTLIER

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My OUTLIER Word DNA says I'm The Compounder. 72% against a site median of 55.7%, across 281 words from 273 roots. OUTLIER is a daily word hunt where the rarest words score highest, not the most words. https://playoutlier.com/poghammarskjold/dna

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