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Word Studies

Beanbags that explore the counts and distributions of words in Project Hail Mary.

The more words you know, the easier it is to describe new ones. 12.075

#6

Words beginning with “scien-” occur 187 times in Project Hail Mary

#7

There are 10,402 unique words in Project Hail Mary.

#10

The word “data” occurs 50 times in Project Hail Mary

#15

The top ten most common words in the novel

#16

The words “tube” and “tubes” occur 44 times in Project Hail Mary

#27

The word “Astrophage” occurs 556 times in Project Hail Mary

#33

The top 20 adjectival modifiers in Project Hail Mary

#38

The word “time” occurs 413 times in Project Hail Mary

#44

The word “cylinder” occurs 69 times in Project Hail Mary

#49

The degree symbol is used 12 times in the novel to mean either temperature or angle.

#51

The word “human” occurs 162 times in Project Hail Mary

#55

There are 1,297 hyphens in Project Hail Mary

#56

The word “life” forms various compounds in Project Hail Mary, often but not always hyphenated.

#60

The word “gravity” occurs 119 times in Project Hail Mary

#61

How is ”human” used to modify other nouns?

#63

The word “clock” occurs 47 times in Project Hail Mary

#71

What is the distribution of word length across Project Hail Mary?

#72

The word “star” occurs 121 times in Project Hail Mary

#77

The word “degree” occurs 102 times in Project Hail Mary

#81

Names of sub-atomic particles occur 55 times in Project Hail Mary

#87

Various chemical compounds are mentioned in Project Hail Mary

#92

Twenty-one different chemical elements are mentioned in Project Hail Mary

#97

The word “light” occurs 270 times in Project Hail Mary

#102

Forms of the word “eat” occurs 86 times in Project Hail Mary

#106

In this beanbag, we look at the most common words for each part-of-speech.

#108

What words did Andy Weir invent for Project Hail Mary?

#112

How are mentions of elements distributed in Project Hail Mary

#115

The word “stupid” occurs 31 times in Project Hail Mary

#120

Words formed with tau occurs 338 times in Project Hail Mary

#125

The word “heck” occurs 51 times in Project Hail Mary

#128

The word “sun” occurs 103 times in Project Hail Mary

#132

The forms of the verb “fix” in the sense of “repair” occur 22 times in Project Hail Mary

#139

Forms of the word “sleep” occur 115 times in Project Hail Mary

#146

How many times do sleeping and watching co-occur in Project Hail Mary

#151

The word “here” occurs 236 times in Project Hail Mary

#157

The words “door” and “doors” occur 107 times in Project Hail Mary

#164

The words “hand”, “claw”, and “fist” occur 299 times in Project Hail Mary

#173

The word “question” occurs 234 times in Project Hail Mary and it’s mostly Rocky

#175

The words “and”, “but”, and “or” occur as coordinating conjunctions 4,585 times in Project Hail Mary