Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

small-world phenomenon

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English

Syllables: smal-l---world phe-nomenon
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

6

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The phenomenon that human society resembles a small-world network with short path lengths, i.e. any two human beings tend to be linked through a small chain of friends of friends.

Inflected Forms

small-world phenomena (plural)

Questions

What does small-world phenomenon mean?: The phenomenon that human society resembles a small-world network with short path lengths, i.e. any two human beings tend to be linked through a small chain of friends of friends.

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