Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

heaps' law

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English

Syllables: heap-s' law
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An empirical law that expresses the correlation between the length of a document or set of documents and the corresponding number of distinct words.

Etymology

Named after Harold Stanley Heaps, but was originally discovered by Gustav Herdan.

Questions

What does heaps' law mean?: An empirical law that expresses the correlation between the length of a document or set of documents and the corresponding number of distinct words.
Where does heaps' law come from?: Named after Harold Stanley Heaps, but was originally discovered by Gustav Herdan.

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