Congress / Vocabulary
Five swear-word families
The most-used families in member-attributed House and Senate text, ranked by total matches. Variants are combined; annual rates use each party's attributed word total.
Sources and how to read these graphs
Lexical matches in published member-attributed text, not verified personally uttered curses. Quotation-mark masking and inserted-material detection are imperfect; literal uses and quoted or printed material can still match.
These graphs use GovInfo member-level data, not the separate Stanford series back to 1873.
da*n
1,025 matched uses across the covered period. Grouped forms: da***t, da*n, da***d, go******t, go****n, go******d.
he*l
441 matched uses across the covered period. Grouped forms: go to he*l, he*l of a, he****a, wh*t the he*l.
cr*p
416 matched uses across the covered period. Grouped forms: cr*p, cr***y.
a*s
47 matched uses across the covered period. Grouped forms: a*s, as**s, ha**-****d.
ba****d
29 matched uses across the covered period. Grouped forms: ba****d, ba*****s.
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