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Word Frequencies in Greek and Latin


Frequencies for pherô

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Corpus Words Instances Freq./10K Instances Freq./10K Instances Freq./10K

Greek Texts 4844028 4495 9.28 4429 9.14 4461.83 9.21

Greek Prose 4172940 3069 7.35 3047 7.30 3058 7.33

DDBDP Greek Texts 3515144 876 2.49 868 2.47 872 2.48

Greek Poetry 671088 1426 21.25 1382 20.59 1403.83 20.92

Greek Rhetoric 611183 421 6.89 419 6.86 420 6.87

Greek Drama 344198 801 23.27 781 22.69 791 22.98

Greek Tragedy 249401 508 20.37 495 19.85 501.50 20.11

Greek Hexameter 231322 429 18.55 410 17.72 419.50 18.13

		Maximum		Minimum		Weighted
Corpus	Words	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K
Aeschines	44356	38	8.57	38	8.57	38	8.57
Aeschylus	40104	59	14.71	59	14.71	59	14.71
Andocides	17424	18	10.33	18	10.33	18	10.33
Antiphon	18159	12	6.61	12	6.61	12	6.61
Apollonius Rhodius	38814	59	15.20	59	15.20	59	15.20
Appian	222458	322	14.47	318	14.29	320	14.38
Aristophanes	94797	293	30.91	286	30.17	289.50	30.54
Aristotle	303262	121	3.99	120	3.96	120.50	3.97
Bacchylides	4697	10	21.29	10	21.29	10	21.29
Callimachus	9538	33	34.60	33	34.60	33	34.60
Demades	2006	1	4.99	1	4.99	1	4.99
Demosthenes	294302	220	7.48	219	7.44	219.50	7.46
Dinarchus	10659	12	11.26	12	11.26	12	11.26
Diodorus	191882	106	5.52	106	5.52	106	5.52
Epictetus	84176	98	11.64	97	11.52	97.50	11.58
Euclid	152651	7	0.46	7	0.46	7	0.46
Euripides	147583	320	21.68	311	21.07	315.50	21.38
Flavius Josephus	467375	384	8.22	383	8.19	383.50	8.21
Herodotus	184921	214	11.57	211	11.41	212.50	11.49
Hesiod	16193	31	19.14	28	17.29	29.50	18.22
Homer	199047	375	18.84	361	18.14	368	18.49
Homeric Hymns	16082	23	14.30	21	13.06	22	13.68
Hyperides	11809	7	5.93	7	5.93	7	5.93
Isaeus	33315	15	4.50	15	4.50	15	4.50
Isocrates	111925	64	5.72	63	5.63	63.50	5.67
Lycurgus	10914	13	11.91	13	11.91	13	11.91
Lysias	56314	21	3.73	21	3.73	21	3.73
New Testament	137850	67	4.86	66	4.79	66.50	4.82
Old Oligarch	3195	5	15.65	5	15.65	5	15.65
Pausanias	218068	140	6.42	139	6.37	139.50	6.40
Pindar	21258	54	25.40	53	24.93	53.50	25.17
Plato	561388	463	8.25	459	8.18	461	8.21
Plutarch	74834	82	10.96	82	10.96	82	10.96
Polybius	311345	192	6.17	192	6.17	192	6.17
Pseudo-Apollodorus	35087	27	7.70	26	7.41	26.50	7.55
Sophocles	61714	129	20.90	125	20.25	127	20.58
Strabo	144158	87	6.04	86	5.97	86.50	6.00
Theocritus	21261	40	18.81	36	16.93	37.83	17.79
Theophrastus	6716	8	11.91	8	11.91	8	11.91
Thucydides	150116	76	5.06	76	5.06	76	5.06
Xenophon	312275	249	7.97	247	7.91	248	7.94