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NEW: Most of the
information at this website deals with data from the COCA
corpus, which was about 400 million words in size when this
word frequency data was compiled. In May 2018 we
released word frequency data from
the 14 billion word
iWeb
corpus, which is about 35 times as large as COCA. |
This site contains what is probably the
most accurate
word
frequency data for English, and is based mainly on the 560 million word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA).
The data comes in a number of different formats (see samples: 100,000 and 60,000 word lists,
and a comparison of the two lists).
For the 5,000-60,000 word lists, you can download a
simple word list, frequency by genre, or as an
eBook or a printed
frequency dictionary. For the 100,000 word list, you can see detailed frequency
information for many genres in several different corpora.
In addition to word frequency data, you can also download up to 155 million
n-grams, and 4.3 million
collocates.
Any frequency list is only as good as the corpus (collection of texts) that it is based
on. The 5,000-60,000 word lists are based on the only large, genre-balanced,
up-to-date corpus of American English -- the 560 million word
Corpus of
Contemporary American English (COCA). The 100,000 word
list supplements this COCA data with detailed frequency data from
the 400 million word Corpus of
Historical American English, the
British National Corpus,
and the Corpus of American
Soap Operas (for very informal language).
Short samples (see more)
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rank |
lemma / word |
PoS |
frequency |
dispersion |
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7309 |
attic |
n |
2711 |
0.91 |
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17311 |
tearful |
j |
542 |
0.93 |
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27303 |
tailgate |
v |
198 |
0.85 |
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37310 |
hydraulically |
r |
78 |
0.83 |
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47309 |
unsparing |
j |
35 |
0.83 |
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57309 |
embryogenesis |
n |
22 |
0.66 |
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rank |
lemma / word |
PoS |
disp |
totFreq |
spok |
fic |
mag |
news |
acad |
M1 |
M2 |
N1 |
N2 |
A1 |
A2 |
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25083 |
piglet |
n |
0.88 |
239 |
20 |
97 |
54 |
46 |
22 |
10 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
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25088 |
woodsman |
n |
0.70 |
300 |
10 |
176 |
77 |
12 |
25 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
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25090 |
candied |
j |
0.87 |
242 |
17 |
49 |
102 |
73 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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25093 |
metacognitive |
j |
0.69 |
306 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
306 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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25107 |
industry-wide |
j |
0.89 |
236 |
16 |
2 |
64 |
109 |
45 |
19 |
10 |
2 |
1 |
10 |
6 |
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25108 |
health-food |
j |
0.85 |
246 |
10 |
19 |
154 |
55 |
8 |
6 |
4 |
7 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
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25110 |
posterior |
n |
0.88 |
240 |
6 |
30 |
36 |
27 |
139 |
0 |
5 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
99 |
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