As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "small-vocabulary" to "big-vocabulary". This page lists the 25 characters whose average ratings were the farthest to either side. Because the scale is bipolar, it is reversable. For example, a rating of 1/100 for "small-vocabulary" is the same as 100/100 for "big-vocabulary". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 98.0 | 11 | Spike (The Land Before Time) |
| 2 | 95.6 | 7 | Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) |
| 3 | 94.7 | 66 | Black Noir (The Boys) |
| 4 | 94.6 | 10 | Michael Kelso (That 70's Show) |
| 5 | 93.6 | 14 | Nelson Muntz (The Simpsons) |
| 6 | 92.9 | 12 | Karen Smith (Mean Girls) |
| 7 | 92.6 | 24 | Jason Mendoza (The Good Place) |
| 8 | 92.5 | 6 | Midge Pinciotti (That 70's Show) |
| 9 | 92.3 | 11 | Joey Tribbiani (Friends) |
| 10 | 91.6 | 11 | Greg Hirsch (Succession) |
| 11 | 91.5 | 6 | the Alien (Alien) |
| 12 | 91.0 | 13 | Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants) |
| 13 | 91.0 | 20 | Barney Gumble (The Simpsons) |
| 14 | 90.9 | 7 | Jake Harper (Two and Half Men) |
| 15 | 90.7 | 12 | The Amphibian Man (The Shape of Water) |
| 16 | 90.6 | 12 | Kevin Malone (The Office) |
| 17 | 90.4 | 5 | Chung-sook (Parasite) |
| 18 | 90.4 | 11 | Bob Pinciotti (That 70's Show) |
| 19 | 90.0 | 8 | Ducky (The Land Before Time) |
| 20 | 89.9 | 9 | Noah Puckerman (Glee) |
| 21 | 89.5 | 8 | Sam Evans (Glee) |
| 22 | 88.7 | 8 | Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451) |
| 23 | 88.6 | 11 | Jimmy Hurdstrom (Yellowstone) |
| 24 | 88.5 | 13 | Philip J. Fry (Futurama) |
| 25 | 88.2 | 10 | Gollum (Lord of the Rings) |
| Rank | Average rating | Number of raters | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 99.2 | 9 | Sherlock Holmes (Elementary) |
| 2 | 99.2 | 12 | Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation) |
| 3 | 99.1 | 16 | Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal) |
| 4 | 98.9 | 9 | Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist) |
| 5 | 98.4 | 32 | Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place) |
| 6 | 98.2 | 18 | Professor X (X-Men) |
| 7 | 98.1 | 16 | Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory) |
| 8 | 97.8 | 9 | Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) |
| 9 | 97.7 | 17 | Annalise Keating (How To Get Away With Murder) |
| 10 | 97.6 | 10 | Alexis Castle (Castle) |
| 11 | 97.6 | 13 | Belle (Beauty and the Beast) |
| 12 | 97.4 | 8 | Paris Geller (Gilmore Girls) |
| 13 | 97.4 | 46 | Donald Mallard (NCIS) |
| 14 | 97.3 | 12 | David Levinson (Independence Day) |
| 15 | 97.2 | 16 | Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Downton Abbey) |
| 16 | 97.0 | 5 | Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager) |
| 17 | 97.0 | 10 | Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) |
| 18 | 96.8 | 18 | Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds) |
| 19 | 96.7 | 10 | Vision (WandaVision) |
| 20 | 96.7 | 34 | Dr. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs) |
| 21 | 96.7 | 28 | Edward Nygma (Gotham) |
| 22 | 96.3 | 20 | Leslie Winkle (The Big Bang Theory) |
| 23 | 96.3 | 17 | Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons) |
| 24 | 96.3 | 13 | Robert Ford (Westworld) |
| 25 | 96.2 | 12 | Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing) |
The survey has 400 different descriptive scales that the characters can be rated on. This list is the 10 other scales that that have the highest correlation with small-vocabulary<--->big-vocabulary when aggregated at the character level.