12 words that are more familiar to men than women

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March 24, 2017 6:32 PM

According to a 500,000-person vocabulary test, men and women are disproportionately familiar with different words.

Men and women apparently know different words.

An antiquated way of thinking might lead some people to believe that men strictly like talking about cars and sports while women only gab about fashion.

But some of these stereotypes may have a bit of truth to them, according to data analysis from the Center for Reading Research. The center posted an online vocabulary test and analyzed the first 500,000 results, focusing on differences in gender.

Some words exhibited a large margin between the percent of men and women who reported knowing them.

Below, we've listed the words that are more familiar to men than women. They tend to center on transportation, weapons, and science. The words that are more familiar to women tend to

See if you know the words below, and then take a version of the test here.

Humvee

Definition: a military vehicle that combines the features of a jeep with those of a light truck.

Men who know it: 88%Women who know it: 58%

Codec

compressor/decompressor

Solenoid

Definition: an electric conductor wound as a helix with small pitch, or as two or more coaxial helices, so that current through the conductor establishes a magnetic field within the conductor.

54%

Biped

Definition: a two-footed animal.

61%