Mastering a language is not an easy task, especially if you stumble upon difficult vocabulary. Take a look at how you can check the language score and figure out what the hard words are.
How to access vocabulary difficulty?
Typically, vocabulary difficulty is useful to learners as second language. And the usefulness is beyond language learning. It is very important to automatic language processing or communicative writing as well. If we know what vocabulary is easy or not, we can use those information to assess text difficulty or composing article, and assessing language level.
The problem is that there are no concrete criteria. Also, language itself is changing constantly. Yesterday’s difficult vocabulary become popular today and become easy and essential vocabulary.
There are no proven scientific or mathematic ways to measure vocabulary difficulty that everybody would agree as well. Only useful hints are popularity in everyday usages, context within sentence, and word senses in semantics.
Twinword’s Language Score
Twinword’s approach is mainly based on word frequency to assess vocabulary difficulty, but on top of that considered several factors like exam occurrence. We also constantly update language database reflecting Twinword Exam test taker’s vocabulary test results. To make it helpful for English language learners, 10-level difficulty system was coined.
For app developers, Twinword’s language score API receive word or text and output its value(10-level difficulty) and normalized value between 0 to 1. A higher value means more difficult.
{
"entry": "Sound",
"request": "Sound",
"response": "sound",
"ten_degree": 1,
"value": 0.02654999999999266,
"version": "7.5.3",
"author": "twinword inc.",
"email": "[email protected]",
"result_code": "200",
"result_msg": "Success"
}
Try It Yourself For Free!
Interested? You can try this API for free at our Twinword Text Analysis API Demo Page.
You can also consume the API directly via Amazon AWS Marketplace or RapidAPI Marketplace. Find more information on how to consume our API.
