Word Frequency August 18, 2008
Posted by Matthew Woolums in Tools.trackback
Another interesting site came up today that tracks word usage frequency. More than 86,000 words are tracked in order of how often they are used in the English language. The data comes from the British National Corpus®, http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/. The most frequently used word? ‘The’. Least used? ‘Conquistador’. Who knew? Where do your favorite words stack up? ‘Education’ is number 337, ‘Technology’ is number 843, ‘Books’ came in at 764, while ‘Book’ is number 357. ‘Blog’, ‘Wiki’, and ‘Podcast’ are not currently in the list. ‘Twitter‘ shows up, but I’m guessing that is not referring to the micro-blogging tool.
http://www.wordcount.org/main.php
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That is a really cool page. I’m off to check it out!