A reader is standing in a bookstore with fat paperback in her hands. Will she get through it by beginning of her vacation? Readers love their books; they hate the feeling of having pile of unread ones. The trouble is that a book’s word count doesn’t tell you much. A novel with three hundred pages […]

Lexical Echoes across Chapters/Drafts involve counting words that appear only once (rare words) and counting the words that appear exactly twice (dis legomena counter). Compare these two group of words to see how the rare one-time word stack up against the dis legomena. When you hear a word pop up twice for the first time, […]

Honoré’s free Statistic calculator can be used to figure out the richness of a given vocabulary within seconds. Simply paste a block of text into it for automatic calculation, or enter number of tokens, types, and words that appear only once you’ve counted yourself. If you’ve ever read something that seems to have surprising and […]

MTLD: Measure your lexical diversity by averaging forward and reverse factor scoring. This MTLD calculator include all calculations, such as tokens and customizable token rules. It also allows for comparison across text registers and more. What does “lexical diversity” mean? It’s an academic word for something that becomes surprisingly practical once you start editing your […]