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it's just the number of online dictionary hits you get when you plug a word into the OneLook.com search tool. for an instance, searching for 'set', one of the more common English words, "We found 106 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word set". some folks here also referred to the more restrictive general dictionary score, "General (35 matching dictionaries)"
re: philiater - YCLIU at onelook.com
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It's 3 so that's all right then...
ps is YCLIU an acronym for you can look it up? not so good with acronyms longer than three letters
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YCLIU - I prefer the snootier "You Could Look It Up". 
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True, and it sounds better, I prefer EHOAD myself
ps on further inspection philiater has a score of 2 - it's not on dictionary.com
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just a note I'd add for anyone who might be unfortunate enough to get hooked by an interest in obscure words. the usefulness of onelook as a tool for analyzing the obscurity of words has been somewhat degraded by the rank amateurs now to be found online; see wiktionary, Wordnik, UD, etc. edit: and the tactics of Dictionary.com and others.
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In which case, if you are ignoring wordnik, then it is 1. Plus I'm not hooked to obscure words, I just read a bit of my (rather large and unwieldy) dictionary every day :p
Also they must have found the entries somewhere and spent a lot of time typing up all of their entries no? The open dictionary allows one to add words (as does wiktionary I believe) but that is still a fairly reputable source...
the tactics of Dictionary.com and others what are these tactics of which you speak?
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Wordnik has some very good people behind it; their problem is that their wordlist is way ahead of the content; i.e., definitions and examples.
wiktionary is limited by the wiki construct.
Urban Dictionary is bleah and ecch.
>the tactics of Dictionary.com and others what are these tactics of which you speak?
your example is not atypical; they have many words listed which refer elsewhere or have no content at all; in other words, it seems as though having a word listed is more important than defining it! perhaps they're all just placeholders, but.
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YCLIU - I prefer the snootier "You Could Look It Up". "You Could Look It Up" is a quote from Casey Stengel, IIRC.
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He was a baseball player, right?
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