WNSTATS(7WN)

NAME
wnstats - WordNet 1.6 database statistics

DESCRIPTION

  Number of words, synsets, and senses
POS | Unique Strings | Synsets | Total Senses
Noun | 94474 | 66025 | 116317
Verb | 10319 | 12127 | 22066
Adjective | 20170 | 17915 | 29881
Adverb | 4546 | 3575 | 5677
Totals | 121962 | 99642 | 173941

  Polysemy information
POS | Monosemous Words | Polysemous Words | Polysemous Senses
 | and Senses |  |
Noun | 81909 | 12564 | 34408
Verb | 5751 | 4567 | 16315
Adjective | 14795 | 5374 | 15086
Adverb | 3795 | 750 | 1882
Totals | 106250 | 23255 | 67691
POS | Average Polysemy | Average Polysemy
 | Including Monosemous Words | Excluding Monosemous Words
Noun | 1.23 | 2.73
Verb | 2.13 | 3.57
Adjective | 1.48 | 2.80
Adverb | 1.24 | 2.50

NOTES
Statistics for all types of adjectives and adjective satellites are combined. The total of all unique noun, verb, adjective, and adverb strings is greater than 121962. However, many strings are unique within a syntactic category, but are in more than one syntactic category. The figure in the table represents the unique strings when all syntactic categories are combined.