It is common that different panelists don't always use identical words to describe the same thing (lite vs. little), or they sometimes misspell a word (smaller vs. smaler, or smell vs. smells). When this happens, the word Networks feature will not account for spelling errors or synonymous terms. In other words, each version of the word's spelling will be considered as a unique word with its own count, and each synonym will be considered as a unique word with its own count.
For this reason, it is recommended to perform
1-Word groups comment sorting or 2-Word groups comment sorting before generating the word Networks graphs.