Word frequency is a quantitative measurement that can be calculated. Which example best fits this concept?

• A. Number of sentences in a paragraph
• B. Length of words
• C. Font size
• D. Color of text

Answer: (B)

Word frequency involves counting how often words appear in a text, so you’re dealing with a numerical tally you can calculate. Of the given options, the attribute that best fits as a calculable quantitative property of words is length—the number of characters in a word. You can assign a numeric value to each word’s length and compare or summarize those values across a text. The other choices describe things that aren’t about counting word usage: how many sentences are in a paragraph is a count of sentences, not a property of the words themselves; font size and text color are formatting characteristics, not measures of word usage.