Friday, February 23, 2007

The conquistador

It's hard to say what's so amazing about the site, but I've wasted enough time there to know that something about Wordcount makes pain go away. The site lines up a list of 86,800 words in order of their frequency. They are also sized in a corresponding scale. According to the "about" page the data was compiled from the 100 million word British National Corpus®.

I found the link over on Hosstuff (to which I've added a link in my sidebar).

offered up by Wishydig at 19:02 Labels: ,

5 comments:

  1. Mrs. H in Costa Rica 202323 February, 2007 22:18

    Now, if only there was a Spanish version! :)

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  2. Casey23 February, 2007 22:55

    "His" is 27; "Her" is 36... and Gretchen tells me there are more women than there are men. I'm detecting an injustice here.

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  3. Anonymous24 February, 2007 04:06

    Yay!
    'Multilingualism' is ranked 86795th, well below some other words in this list that don't even exist (like 'didn' 71850, or 'cbhps' 78213)!
    Tells you something about anglophones, don't it?

    (Thanks for the plug!)

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  4. Anonymous24 February, 2007 13:28

    Yes I have a hard time believing that "overpoweringly" (83118) is so much less frequent than "scu" (58061) and "cholecystokinin" (41632).

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  5. Casey24 February, 2007 21:33

    Michael--didn't you know that "cholecystokinin" is the technical word for "pancake batter?" Yep--cooks use it all the time.

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