type-token ratio

Noun

Meaning

type-token ratio (plural type-token ratios)

(corpus linguistics) The ratio of how many different words (types) occur in a text or corpus to the overall number of words (tokens) in the same text or corpus.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Related terms

type-token distinction

Close letter words and terms

type-safe type-setting type-token distinction typeability typeable typeahead