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Zipfian.

Of or relating to George Kingsley Zipf (1902–1950), American linguist who studied statistical occurrences in different languages and proposed the Zipfian distribution, codified as Zipf's Law, one of a family of discrete power law probability distributions.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈzɪpfiːən//ˈzɪf-/
  1. Of or relating to George Kingsley Zipf (1902–1950), American linguist who studied statistical occurrences in different languages and proposed the Zipfian distribution, codified as Zipf's Law, one of a family of discrete power law probability distributions.

  2. Of or pertaining to Zipf's law or its Zipfian distribution.

Where this word comes from

From Zipf + -ian.

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