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Definitions and Possible Meanings:
  1. block (v) -
    1. to prevent anything moving through a space by being or placing something across it or in it
  2. block (n) -
    1. a piece of hard material such as wood or stone with straight sides
  3. writer's block (n) -
    1. the problem that a writer sometimes has of not being able to think of new ideas
  4. breeze-block (n) -
    1. a light brick used in building, made of cement and cinders
  5. block diagram -
    1. a diagram that shows the relationship between the parts of a system, process, machine etc. The diagram consists of a series of shapes such as squares or circles
  6. block insurance -
    1. insurance in which one contract covers several different loads of goods that are being sent somewhere, up to a particular value
  7. block party (n) -
    1. a party held in the street for all the people living in the area
  8. building block (n) -
    1. a block of wood or plastic for young children to build things with
  9. stumbling block (n) -
    1. a problem or difficulty that stops you from achieving something
  10. apartment block (n) -
    1. a large building containing many apartments
Synonyms and Similar Words:
Block
  • Easier These words are predicted to be easier from a readability stand point based on audiance familiarity:
  • Similar These words are predicted to be similar from a readability stand point based on audiance familiarity:
  • Harder These words are predicted to be harder from a readability stand point based on audiance familiarity:

Remember, not all synonyms are suitable replacements in all contexts. Be sure to consider context, and connotation in addition to readability when choosing an alternatitive word.

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Meta Information
Misspelled:No
Name:No
Syllable Count:1
Audience Familiarity Audience Familarity refers to the ability of the audience to recognize and understand a word.
Word Rank:2476th
Grade Level (Approximate)A 1995 study[1] found that junior high school students were able to recognize between 10,000-12,000 words, whereas college students were able to recognize between 12,000-17,000 words.:Elementary or Middle School
Fog Reading Ease Complex Word:No
Dale-Chall Reading Ease Difficult Word: No

About the Word Analyzer

The Word Analyzer provides meta information about a given word, such audience familiarity, to get you insight into how use of the word may affect readability metrics. The analyzer then shows synonyms and related words your audience may be more familiar with.

Determining Word Rank The word rank metric is a measure of word frequency, with frequent words corresponding to higher ranks. In order to get an accurate frequency count of each word, we utilize a stemmer to identify the morphological root form of a word. This allows us to group slight variations of the same word. For example, 'cats' and 'cat' both have the same stem, as do 'readability' and 'readable.' For most words, familiarity with said word is independent of count (e.g. the singular form vs the plural form) or part of speech (e.g. adjective form vs the noun form). In some rare cases, however, a common word may have multiple meanings including a meaning so infrequent it is not well known. We then calculate word frequency using the data from Project Gutenberg which is a large collection of freely available english documents and summing the counts for all variations of the word corresponding to the same stem.

Definitions Definitions of each word are generating using the Pearson's developer API.

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