Word frequency data

Corpus of Contemporary American English

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3. The rank order is a function of both frequency and "dispersion", which measures how evenly the word is spread a
corpus (1 = most evenly distributed; 0 = appears irregularly in few texts).

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that contain the top 20-30 collocates (nearby words) for each of these words -- which provides useful information on

meaning and usage -- as well as to see which words are most common in certain genres (e.g. spoken or academic). I

possible to download highly accurate lists for the top 10,000, the top 20,000 words, and the top 60,000 words in En
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5. Part of speech codes can be found at http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/claws7tags.html.

6. If you want a printed version of the list with collocates, genre information, etc, you might consider the book Freq
Dictionary of American English: word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists (Routledge, 2010).

Rank

Word

Part of speech

Frequency

the

22038615

be

12545825

and

10741073

of

10343885

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