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Most small-vocabulary or big-vocabulary characters

As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 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.

Most small-vocabulary characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.212Spike (The Land Before Time)
294.868Black Noir (The Boys)
394.610Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
493.67Midge Pinciotti (That 70's Show)
593.513Karen Smith (Mean Girls)
692.925Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
792.810the Alien (Alien)
891.813Joey Tribbiani (Friends)
991.618Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1091.313Kevin Malone (The Office)
1190.79Sam Evans (Glee)
1290.712The Amphibian Man (The Shape of Water)
1390.416Nelson Muntz (The Simpsons)
1490.315Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
1589.810Noah Puckerman (Glee)
1689.612Jimmy Hurdstrom (Yellowstone)
1789.513Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
1889.521Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
1989.314Philip J. Fry (Futurama)
2089.113Bob Pinciotti (That 70's Show)
2188.912Greg Hirsch (Succession)
2288.710Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
2388.610Ducky (The Land Before Time)
2487.917Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
2587.78Lenny (After Life)

Most big-vocabulary characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.314Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
299.217Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
399.011Sherlock Holmes (Elementary)
498.432Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
598.120Professor X (X-Men)
698.010Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
797.713Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
897.717Annalise Keating (How To Get Away With Murder)
997.610Alexis Castle (Castle)
1097.447Donald Mallard (NCIS)
1197.116Belle (Beauty and the Beast)
1297.05Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
1396.919Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
1496.921Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
1596.818Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
1696.728Edward Nygma (Gotham)
1796.639Dr. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs)
1896.410Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)
1996.313Robert Ford (Westworld)
2096.29Olivia Pope (Scandal)
2196.222Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
2296.113Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing)
2396.013Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier (Hannibal)
2495.915David Levinson (Independence Day)
2595.933Kat Stratford (10 Things I Hate About You)

Similar features

The survey has 525 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.

  1. low IQ (not high IQ) (r=0.78)
  2. physical (not intellectual) (r=0.77)
  3. unpolished (not eloquent) (r=0.74)
  4. 💪 (not 🧠) (r=0.73)
  5. dunce (not genius) (r=0.73)
  6. rustic (not cultured) (r=0.72)
  7. drop out (not valedictorian) (r=0.71)
  8. lowbrow (not highbrow) (r=0.7)
  9. ignorant (not knowledgeable) (r=0.67)
  10. underthinker (not overthinker) (r=0.64)

Notes

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