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A word from the ledger

Sturdy

Ten listings in this catalog print sturdy, the most for any word the site tracks. None of them print a weight capacity beside it.

Words in quotation marks are the sellers’ own, quoted from the listings

10

Listings that print the word

0

Also state a weight capacitynone printed

Ten listings print sturdy (10); none of them also states a weight capacity (0).

Where it is printed

Standing Shoe Racks
4
Home Office Desks
1
Bookcases
0
Home Office Desk Chairs
0
Dressers & Chests of Drawers
5

Spellings counted

sturdy

Who defines it

No document linked here defines it for furniture. The FTC’s deception policy says the Commission generally will not pursue obviously exaggerated or puffing claims that ordinary buyers do not take seriously, and its substantiation policy says objective claims carry an implied reasonable basis. Which of the two a particular sturdy is, this site does not decide.

What the listings do with it

Sellers rarely call the whole piece sturdy. They pin the word on a part: a sturdy metal frame, a sturdy wire grid, a sturdy steel frame, a sturdy build. The frame gets the adjective, and the frame gets no figure.

The listings that do print a weight capacity are three desks and one chair, and they reach for other words or none. Two of those desks print a stable steel frame, and the other prints no frame word at all. None of the listings with a capacity prints sturdy.

A capacity figure would not make a piece stronger or weaker on the page. It would give the word something to stand on. Without one, sturdy reads the same on a small shoe rack as on a dresser with a wooden top, and the site has no way to tell the two uses apart.

Nearby words get counted separately rather than folded in. Stable steel frame is printed on two listings, reinforcement structure on one and non-slip on one. They sit in the same register as sturdy, but they are different words, and this page only counts the word in its title.

What the word does not promise

A load figure. The word does not say how much, on which part, or measured how.

The figure behind this word has its own count: Weight capacity.

Narrowing this word to a single category is the job of Word Check.

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