wnstats(7WN)

Name

wnstats - WordNet 3.0 database statistics

Description

Number of words, synsets, and senses

POS Unique Synsets Total
  Strings   Word-Sense Pairs
Noun 117798 82115 146312
Verb 11529 13767 25047
Adjective 21479 18156 30002
Adverb 4481 3621 5580
Totals 155287 117659 206941

 

Polysemy information

 

POS Monosemous Polysemous Polysemous
  Words and Senses Words Senses
Noun 101863 15935 44449
Verb 6277 5252 18770
Adjective 16503 4976 14399
Adverb 3748 733 1832
Totals 128391 26896 79450

 

POS Average Polysemy Average Polysemy
  Including Monosemous Words Excluding Monosemous Words
Noun 1.24 2.79
Verb 2.17 3.57
Adjective 1.40 2.71
Adverb 1.25 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 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.