Words Known Better by Males than Females, and Vice Versa

Note: This was originally published as an Observable notebook.

The chart below visualizes words disproportionately known by one sex and not the other.

The data comes from this table in a paper on Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas (via):

In the dataset we selected, each word was judged on average by 388 participants (282 from the USA and 106 from the UK). The percentages of people indicating they knew the word ranged from 2% (for stotinka, adyta, kahikatea, gomuti, arseniuret, alsike, . . .) to 100% (. . . , you, young, yourself, zone, zoned).

See also: Words Known Better in the US than in the UK, and Vice Versa