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Y Combinator
12× since 2022www.ycombinator.com · 2,368 posts · 2.4M words · Oct 2008 to Jun 2026
195 of 213 months in that span carried a post, 18 none. 319 loaded without countable prose.
Per 1k words, 2024–now
4.18
Per 1k words, 2018–2022
0.35
Em dashes counted
1,658
Posts with at least one
29%
Em dashes per post
Monthly0.00
12-month average1.08
Y Combinator, latest month in the corpusBy year
En dashes are counted alongside as a control: if em dashes climb while en dashes hold flat, that is a change in writing style rather than a change in typography.
| Year | Posts | Em dashes | Per 1k words | En per 1k | Share of posts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 6 | 4 | 2.27 | 0.00 | 17% |
| 2025 | 15 | 12 | 1.81 | 0.60 | 33% |
| 2024 | 34 | 105 | 5.11 | 0.24 | 68% |
| 2023 | 45 | 104 | 4.69 | 0.95 | 67% |
| 2022 | 51 | 27 | 0.79 | 2.64 | 31% |
| 2021 | 45 | 75 | 2.37 | 1.96 | 58% |
| 2020 | 57 | 85 | 2.84 | 5.59 | 54% |
| 2019 | 120 | 90 | 0.18 | 16.36 | 27% |
| 2018 | 210 | 166 | 0.25 | 14.83 | 23% |
| 2017 | 207 | 97 | 0.18 | 12.02 | 16% |
| 2016 | 291 | 278 | 1.01 | 2.69 | 34% |
| 2015 | 306 | 182 | 1.54 | 1.77 | 31% |
| 2014 | 268 | 126 | 2.26 | 1.29 | 25% |
| 2013 | 382 | 206 | 2.60 | 1.00 | 31% |
| 2012 | 204 | 75 | 2.64 | 1.13 | 21% |
| 2011 | 12 | 4 | 2.47 | 1.24 | 17% |
| 2010 | 80 | 7 | 0.70 | 1.19 | 6% |
| 2009 | 34 | 15 | 2.95 | 2.16 | 18% |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0% |