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