wnstats(7) WordNet 3.0 database statistics

DESCRIPTION

Number of words, synsets, and senses

POSUniqueSynsetsTotal
StringsWord-Sense Pairs

Noun11779882115146312
Verb115291376725047
Adjective214791815630002
Adverb448136215580


Totals155287120982206941

Polysemy information

POSMonosemousPolysemousPolysemous
Words and SensesWordsSenses

Noun1018631593544449
Verb6277525218770
Adjective16503497614399
Adverb37487331832


Totals1283912689679450

POSAverage PolysemyAverage Polysemy
Including Monosemous WordsExcluding Monosemous Words

Noun1.242.79
Verb2.173.57
Adjective1.402.71
Adverb1.252.50

NOTES

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

The total of all unique noun, verb, adjective, and adverb strings is actually 147278. However, many strings are unique within a syntactic category, but are in more than one syntactic category. The figures in the table represent the unique strings in each syntactic category.