👉 Usedness in linguistics refers to a linguistic concept that describes how much an utterance is understood or accepted by speakers. It is often measured using the ratio of the number of times a word is repeated correctly compared to the total number of words spoken. The term "usedness" was first introduced by linguist and philosopher, Ferdinand de Saussure, in his seminal work "Language and Thought." In this work, he proposed that language is not simply a set of symbols but rather an expression
