Statistics for Is It a Word?

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Question	Answer	% Correct
CREPITATE (v.) to make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds; crackle	Real Word	64%
LOGOMACHY (n.) a dispute over or about words	Real Word	59%
MEDIODIGITATE (v.) to gesture with the third finger of either hand in such a way as to express displeasure or disapproval	Fake Word	55%
FATIDIC (adj.) of or belonging to prophecy; prophetic	Real Word	55%
BEAMISH (adj.) bright with happiness, promise, or achievement	Real Word	55%
NICTATE (v.) to blink	Real Word	50%
MICTURATE (v.) to urinate; make water	Real Word	50%
ELECTROLIER (n.) a support for electric lamps, especially one resembling a chandelier	Real Word	45%
STEATOPYGOUS (adj.) having an excessive development of fat on the buttocks	Real Word	45%
EUTITILOUS (adj.) being unusually or excessively ticklish	Fake Word	41%
PRAEDORMITORY (adj.) of or relating to the semi-conscious state immediately preceding sleep	Fake Word	41%
TACTILECTION (n.) the act of reading by touch (as with Braille, e.g.)	Fake Word	32%
PYLOCTOMY (n.) the act of making excessively fine or trivial distinctions in reasoning (i.e., splitting hairs)	Fake Word	27%
OSCITITIS (n.) a morbid tendency to yawn invontunarily after seeing someone else yawn	Fake Word	27%
FREUDESCHADEN (n.) emotional suffering felt in response to the joy of others	Fake Word	23%
AUTOLOQUATION (n.) the act or habit of talking to oneself	Fake Word	23%
PSEUDOSEMIOUS (adj.) (linguistics) meaningful in appearance but in reality meaningless	Fake Word	23%