Often/frequently/repeatedly Forum

[the_pakalypse]

Do these words fall under "some" or "most"?

[20130312]

Neither! Be very careful of making that mistake.

Most is a majority (anything >50%)
Some is at least one (anywhere in the range from one to all)

Often, frequently, and repeatedly are much more ambiguous terms and cannot be quantified.

[revahp00]

If we were to use a scale from 1-100

Some would be anywhere from 1-99
Most would be anywhere from 50-99

'Often' does NOT equal most.
'Typically' does NOT equal most.

'Usually' DOES equal most

[ColtsFan88]

Some is 1-100. Some can equal "all". Be careful.

[suspicious android]

These words can be treated interchangeably with "sometimes", which is just "some" for sentences dealing with time rather than quantity. However, these are all plural, so they can't actually refer to a singular event, whereas "some" very occasionally does refer to a single item.

[20130312]

Some is 1-100. Some can equal "all". Be careful.

Credited. In circumstances with unknowns, most could also equal all. So let's say there are four cups. Three of them are red, but we can't see the fourth and don't know what color it is. We know that most of the cups are red, regardless of the fourth, but it very well could be that all of them are red.