Name
wnstats - WordNet 2.1 database statistics
Description
Number of words, synsets, and senses
| POS | Unique | Synsets | Total |
| Strings | Word-Sense Pairs | ||
| Noun | 117097 | 81426 | 145104 |
| Verb | 11488 | 13650 | 24890 |
| Adjective | 22141 | 18877 | 31302 |
| Adverb | 4601 | 3644 | 5720 |
| Totals | 155327 | 117597 | 207016 |
Polysemy information
| POS | Monosemous | Polysemous | Polysemous |
| Words and Senses | Words | Senses | |
| Noun | 101321 | 15776 | 43783 |
| Verb | 6261 | 5227 | 18629 |
| Adjective | 16889 | 5252 | 14413 |
| Adverb | 3850 | 751 | 1870 |
| Totals | 128321 | 27006 | 78695 |
| POS | Average Polysemy | Average Polysemy |
| Including Monosemous Words | Excluding Monosemous Words | |
| Noun | 1.23 | 2.77 |
| Verb | 2.16 | 3.56 |
| Adjective | 1.41 | 2.74 |
| Adverb | 1.24 | 2.49 |
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 147249. 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.