wordusually
Wordusually is a coined linguistic term that describes a word’s habitual or typical usage within a language. It denotes the extent to which a word tends to appear in predictable contexts or with common collocations, beyond what raw frequency alone would suggest. The term is not established in formal linguistics but has appeared in discussions of corpus-based usage patterns as a compact descriptor of predictable word behavior.
Origin and status: The term originated in late 2010s and early 2020s in blogs and teaching materials
Definition and measurement: Wordusually can be operationalized by combining measures of absolute frequency, distribution across genres,
Applications: In language teaching, lexicography, and natural language processing, the concept helps identify words with stable
Examples: In practice, a word with a high wordusually score tends to co-occur with certain verbs or
Limitations: The concept depends on corpus choice and domain; estimates can vary across datasets and languages
See also: frequency, collocation, corpus linguistics, lexical semantics, language modeling.