Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hawking index

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English

Syllables: hawk-ing in-dex
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A humorous measure of how far people will, on average, read through a particular book before giving up.

Example Sentences

"The mathematician Ellenberg has developed the Hawking Index, but according to his own statements only for entertainment and not for scientific purposes."

Etymology

Invented by American mathematician Jordan Ellenberg in 2014, and named after English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, whose book A Brief History of Time (1988) has been called “the most unread book of all time”.

Inflected Forms

the Hawking Index (canonical)

Questions

What does hawking index mean?: A humorous measure of how far people will, on average, read through a particular book before giving up.
Where does hawking index come from?: Invented by American mathematician Jordan Ellenberg in 2014, and named after English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, whose book A Brief History of Time (1988) has been called “the most unread book of all time”.

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