hellin's law
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The principle that the frequency of x multiple births from natural pregnancies is approximately 1:89ˣ⁻¹.
Etymology
Originated in an 1895 paper by D. Hellin.
Synonyms
Hellin-Zeleny law