Word frequency data

In addition to frequency lists for English, we also have what we believe are the most accurate frequency lists for Portuguese, containing the top 40,000 lemmas / words in the language. The Portuguese data is based on 1 billion words of data in the Web/Dialects corpus from the Corpus do Português.

When you purchase the data, you will receive three different datasets (see detailed information on format):

1. Top 40,000 lemmas (see samples), where lemma = all forms of a word (e.g. estar = estar, está, estão, estava, estou).

Rank Lemma PoS Frequency # texts

15285 embaixadora n 1232 908

15295 fosfato n 1230 734

15305 destronar v 1227 1111

15315 susceptibilidade n 1226 1034

15325 desvelar v 1224 1043

15335 canonizar v 1222 923

15345 guinada n 1220 1091

15355 notabilizar v 1219 1140

15365 baço j 1217 1057

15375 alcoolizar v 1215 946

15385 quilate n 1213 753

15395 apologético j 1210 776

2. Frequency of forms of top 40,000 lemmas (see samples)

Lemma rank Lemma freq Lemma PoS Word freq Word % of lemma

5355 9173 contador n 7214 contador 0.786

5355 9173 contador n 1958 contadores 0.213

5365 9149 ambicioso j 4558 ambicioso 0.498

5365 9149 ambicioso j 1930 ambiciosos 0.211

5365 9149 ambicioso j 1899 ambiciosa 0.208

5365 9149 ambicioso j 760 ambiciosas 0.083

5375 9129 sensacional j 7672 sensacional 0.840

5375 9129 sensacional j 1441 sensacionais 0.158

5385 9100 viabilizar v 4633 viabilizar 0.509

5385 9100 viabilizar v 813 viabiliza 0.089

5385 9100 viabilizar v 519 viabilizando 0.057

5385 9100 viabilizar v 398 viabilizou 0.044

3. Frequency of top 200,000 word forms (see samples), not lemmatized or tagged for part of speech. Shows # texts (to find and perhaps remove words that are in just a few texts) and % capitalized (to find words that are probably proper nouns)

Rank Word form Frequency # texts % capitalized

38265 avelãs 854 555 0.25

38275 deluxe 853 524 0.74

38285 risível 853 741 0.08

38295 proletário 853 559 0.09

38305 desacelerar 852 773 0.03

38315 placa-mãe 852 329 0.03

38325 etéreo 851 713 0.03

38335 monstruosidade 851 778 0.02

38345 mises 851 464 0.97

38355 empenhadas 851 815 0.01

38365 imunização 850 571 0.13

38375 telex 850 295 0.32

To order the data:

1. Download and fill out the license agreement (academic, non-academic) and then send it back to us as an attachment.

In order to receive academic pricing, you must send the license agreement from an academic email address (i.e. not Gmail, etc).
The license agreement states that you will not give the data to anyone else outside of your university or company (which also means that you cannot post it on the web).

2. Once we receive the license agreement, we will send you a request for payment from PayPal.

3. As soon as we receive confirmation of the payment, we will send you the link to download the data.

Thanks for your interest.