A corpus of 576 words and orthographically legal pseudowords was rated by 150 undergraduates to obtain a subjective estimate of the number of meanings possessed by the stimuli. The information contained in this corpus may be used to supplement current, sources of word-meaning information (e.g., total number of dictionary entries). Experimental evidence is presented that supports the reliability of the normative data.
Undergraduates rated words and pseudowords for number of meanings, using a rating scale in which "no meaning" was represented by "0," "only one meaning" was represented by "1," and ''more than one meaning'' was represented by "2."