Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

littlewood's law

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English

Syllables: lit-tle-wood's law
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The observation that a person can expect to experience an event with odds of one in a million approximately once per month.

Etymology

The law was framed by Cambridge University Professor John Edensor Littlewood, and published in a 1986 collection of his work.

Questions

What does littlewood's law mean?: The observation that a person can expect to experience an event with odds of one in a million approximately once per month.
Where does littlewood's law come from?: The law was framed by Cambridge University Professor John Edensor Littlewood, and published in a 1986 collection of his work.

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