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Word Frequencies in Greek and Latin


Frequencies for kouros

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

Greek Texts 4844028 80 0.17 0 0 40 0.08

Greek Prose 4172940 1 0.00 0 0 0.50 0.00

DDBDP Greek Texts 3515144 2 0.01 0 0 1 0.00

Greek Poetry 671088 79 1.18 0 0 39.50 0.59

Greek Rhetoric 611183 0 0 0 0 0 0

Greek Drama 344198 7 0.20 0 0 3.50 0.10

Greek Tragedy 249401 6 0.24 0 0 3 0.12

Greek Hexameter 231322 53 2.29 0 0 26.50 1.15

		Maximum		Minimum		Weighted
Corpus	Words	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K
Aeschines	44356	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aeschylus	40104	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andocides	17424	0	0	0	0	0	0
Antiphon	18159	0	0	0	0	0	0
Apollonius Rhodius	38814	8	2.06	0	0	4	1.03
Appian	222458	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aristophanes	94797	1	0.11	0	0	0.50	0.05
Aristotle	303262	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bacchylides	4697	1	2.13	0	0	0.50	1.06
Callimachus	9538	2	2.10	0	0	1	1.05
Demades	2006	0	0	0	0	0	0
Demosthenes	294302	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dinarchus	10659	0	0	0	0	0	0
Diodorus	191882	0	0	0	0	0	0
Epictetus	84176	0	0	0	0	0	0
Euclid	152651	0	0	0	0	0	0
Euripides	147583	6	0.41	0	0	3	0.20
Flavius Josephus	467375	0	0	0	0	0	0
Herodotus	184921	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hesiod	16193	0	0	0	0	0	0
Homer	199047	48	2.41	0	0	24	1.21
Homeric Hymns	16082	5	3.11	0	0	2.50	1.55
Hyperides	11809	0	0	0	0	0	0
Isaeus	33315	0	0	0	0	0	0
Isocrates	111925	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lycurgus	10914	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lysias	56314	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Testament	137850	0	0	0	0	0	0
Old Oligarch	3195	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pausanias	218068	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pindar	21258	2	0.94	0	0	1	0.47
Plato	561388	0	0	0	0	0	0
Plutarch	74834	0	0	0	0	0	0
Polybius	311345	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pseudo-Apollodorus	35087	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sophocles	61714	0	0	0	0	0	0
Strabo	144158	1	0.07	0	0	0.50	0.03
Theocritus	21261	6	2.82	0	0	3	1.41
Theophrastus	6716	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thucydides	150116	0	0	0	0	0	0
Xenophon	312275	0	0	0	0	0	0