Bichromator: Concrete

Every word lives somewhere between rock and idea — see where yours land.
concrete abstract not in lookup

Input

How scoring works

Each word is looked up in a curated subset of the Brysbaert et al. (2014) concreteness norms — 37,058 English lemmas rated 1.0 (most abstract) to 5.0 (most concrete) by crowd-sourced human raters. Words not in the lookup are shown in neutral gray and excluded from statistics.

Color interpolates linearly from terracotta (score 5) through neutral ochre (score 3) to cerulean (score 1). Hover any colored word to see its exact score.

Output

Colored prose will appear here.

Distribution

concrete (5) 4 3 2 abstract (1)

Calibration corpus

Compare your passage to known corpora. Pre-computed averages from representative samples.

Corpus Mean score n