Word Frequency in American English
Project #2413 on iSENSEProject.org
Description
This data set is a small subset of word frequency data from Brigham Young University's massive Corpus of Contemporary American English, which contains 180,000 contemporary texts totaling some 520,000,000 words:
http://www.wordfrequency.info/
This list includes the 1,000 most frequently occurring words in the corpus, each with its frequency rank, absolute frequency, and part of speech.
Some interesting highlights...
Most frequent word, overall: "the" (1)
Top verb: "be" (2)
Top noun: "time" (52)
Top adjective: "other" (75)
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Our Data
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