Rapeter — how hard are the lyrics?
Based on 23 songs (12,731 words of Chinese) analyzed against HSK 3.0.
| Typical song: share of words in HSK 1-3 | 73.1% — rank 68 of 152 (full leaderboard) |
|---|---|
| Typical song at HSK 3 | you would already know about 73% of the words |
| Typical song at HSK 5 | about 83% |
| Songs with a chengyu | 87% |
HSK 1HSK 2HSK 3HSK 4HSK 5HSK 6HSK 7-9Beyond HSK
Songs, easiest to hardest
Ranked by the share of HSK 1-3 vocabulary. Lyrics are not shown or stored — open a song to see its vocabulary breakdown, or paste the lyrics for the colour-coded view.
| Song | HSK 1-3 | Known at HSK 5 | Words | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| notgood | 81% | 88% | 531 | 308 |
| 红的 | 78% | 88% | 658 | 294 |
| 主场pt2 | 78% | 84% | 407 | 212 |
| 纽约夜 | 76% | 86% | 566 | 261 |
| nohookfreestyle | 76% | 85% | 474 | 295 |
| 被毁掉的孩子 | 75% | 85% | 575 | 294 |
| 小rapper | 75% | 86% | 862 | 469 |
| 虹桥 | 74% | 83% | 538 | 281 |
| 27 | 74% | 84% | 487 | 252 |
| nohookfreestylept2 | 74% | 83% | 717 | 411 |
| nohookfreestylept3 | 73% | 83% | 618 | 367 |
| shower | 73% | 84% | 480 | 197 |
| 近况freestyle | 73% | 78% | 330 | 222 |
| 林宛瑜 | 73% | 84% | 431 | 237 |
| 纽约背包客 | 72% | 82% | 471 | 264 |
| 六斤六两 | 72% | 81% | 572 | 342 |
| getinmyvibe | 72% | 81% | 569 | 235 |
| 雨燕 | 71% | 81% | 575 | 260 |
| nohookfreestylept4 | 71% | 82% | 709 | 437 |
| 绝对零度 | 70% | 83% | 618 | 247 |
| 他们从未离去 | 70% | 79% | 530 | 314 |
| 别吵架 | 69% | 76% | 511 | 215 |
| 轩哥 | 68% | 78% | 502 | 290 |
Most distinctive words
Words this artist uses far more often than the rest of the corpus does — what makes their writing recognisable, rather than simply what they say most.
| Word | vs. other artists | in their songs |
|---|---|---|
| 嗓音 | 106.7× | 3 of 23 |
| 纽 | 94.9× | 8 of 23 |
| 过年 | 85.4× | 3 of 23 |
| 路子 | 85.4× | 3 of 23 |
| 研 | 77.6× | 3 of 23 |
| 考试 | 65.7× | 3 of 23 |
| 搜 | 65.7× | 3 of 23 |
| 学生 | 61.0× | 3 of 23 |
| 大学 | 61.0× | 3 of 23 |
| 毕业 | 59.3× | 5 of 23 |
| 前辈 | 50.2× | 3 of 23 |
| 使命 | 50.2× | 3 of 23 |
Words this artist leans on that HSK 1-6 never teaches
Most frequent vocabulary in the HSK 7-9 band or outside the lists entirely.
纽 34× 哥 22× 领域 17× 儿 16× 尽情 16× 客 12× 感 11× 麦 11× 伴奏 11× 燕 11× 泡沫 10× 乖 8×
Grammar you will meet
| 了 (aspect/change) | 100% of songs |
|---|---|
| 着 (continuous aspect) | 96% of songs |
| 把-construction | 91% of songs |
| 被 (passive) | 83% of songs |
| 过 (experiential aspect) | 70% of songs |
| 更/最 (degree adverbs) | 61% of songs |
| AA reduplication (看看, 慢慢) | 52% of songs |
| potential complement (V得/不+C: 听不懂, 睡不着) | 52% of songs |