word frequency
How often said
Word frequency is a count of how often a word appears in a given text or corpus.
Linguists and researchers use frequency data to study language patterns, while teachers use it to prioritize vocabulary instruction.
High-frequency words like the, is, and of dominate any English text, while rare words may appear only once in millions of words.
- corpusAssembled written works
- lexiconVocabulary of a language
- text miningComputational document analysis
- collocationConventional phrase pattern
- histogramFrequency distribution graph
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linguistic property type
word frequencyword meaning
A term's significance
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