I actually did some ranking to measure the connectivity of words in the dictionary that I used. I made this little word cloud to show off the most highly connective non-trivial words: https://imgur.com/iqJ1Iwb
As a side note, something that struck me when I first visited treegle.xyz, was that the definition of "quarrel" included the word "etc." in it:
quarrel - a small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square
The use of this "etc." bugs me for some reason: it seems to assume that the reader knows how a window tracery is built, and the word adds no value to the definition - and makes me wonder what components other than "cusps" they meant.
Anyway, wonderful experiment (and project name too).
Yeah, one way of measuring connectivity is counting how many definitions that a word appears in. Also, yeah, sometimes there are text artifacts in definitions and words, phrases, or abbreviations that don't add any value to the definition.
From research that I've done, this happens in online dictionaries (not often, but occasionally). I've done a lot of work to clean up the definitions in my dictionary and provide the top ranking definitions first, but some artifacts still slip through the cracks.
I really appreciate all of your great feedback and welcome any comments or discussion anytime! :)
If you're interested in dictionaries and would like to chat sometime, please send me a message. I would love to. :)