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Word Frequencies in Greek and Latin


Frequencies for zeus
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Corpus Words Instances Freq./10K Instances Freq./10K Instances Freq./10K

Greek Texts 4844028 4461 9.21 2755 5.69 3333.08 6.88

Greek Prose 4172940 2120 5.08 1045 2.50 1387.75 3.33

DDBDP Greek Texts 3515144 900 2.56 632 1.80 760.75 2.16

Greek Poetry 671088 2341 34.88 1710 25.48 1945.33 28.99

Greek Rhetoric 611183 306 5.01 93 1.52 158.58 2.59

Greek Drama 344198 1067 31.00 569 16.53 742.58 21.57

Greek Tragedy 249401 615 24.66 482 19.33 545.33 21.87

Greek Hexameter 231322 971 41.98 882 38.13 922.83 39.89

		Maximum		Minimum		Weighted
Corpus	Words	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K
Aeschines	44356	19	4.28	7	1.58	11	2.48
Aeschylus	40104	199	49.62	156	38.90	176.75	44.07
Andocides	17424	1	0.57	0	0	0.33	0.19
Antiphon	18159	4	2.20	3	1.65	3.50	1.93
Apollonius Rhodius	38814	90	23.19	82	21.13	86	22.16
Appian	222458	21	0.94	15	0.67	17.67	0.79
Aristophanes	94797	452	47.68	87	9.18	197.25	20.81
Aristotle	303262	18	0.59	13	0.43	14.67	0.48
Bacchylides	4697	33	70.26	30	63.87	31.33	66.71
Callimachus	9538	26	27.26	18	18.87	21.83	22.89
Demades	2006	0	0	0	0	0	0
Demosthenes	294302	221	7.51	50	1.70	101.50	3.45
Dinarchus	10659	7	6.57	2	1.88	3.75	3.52
Diodorus	191882	27	1.41	17	0.89	20.58	1.07
Epictetus	84176	106	12.59	44	5.23	69.58	8.27
Euclid	152651	4	0.26	0	0	1.83	0.12
Euripides	147583	296	20.06	238	16.13	264.75	17.94
Flavius Josephus	467375	29	0.62	15	0.32	21.50	0.46
Herodotus	184921	74	4.00	59	3.19	64.25	3.47
Hesiod	16193	133	82.13	121	74.72	125.83	77.71
Homer	199047	710	35.67	635	31.90	670.17	33.67
Homeric Hymns	16082	128	79.59	126	78.35	126.83	78.87
Hyperides	11809	8	6.77	2	1.69	4	3.39
Isaeus	33315	12	3.60	1	0.30	4.50	1.35
Isocrates	111925	24	2.14	22	1.97	22.67	2.03
Lycurgus	10914	6	5.50	5	4.58	5.33	4.89
Lysias	56314	4	0.71	1	0.18	2	0.36
New Testament	137850	38	2.76	1	0.07	19.33	1.40
Old Oligarch	3195	1	3.13	1	3.13	1	3.13
Pausanias	218068	383	17.56	327	15.00	346.50	15.89
Pindar	21258	110	51.75	90	42.34	99.83	46.96
Plato	561388	417	7.43	156	2.78	237.33	4.23
Plutarch	74834	26	3.47	16	2.14	19.33	2.58
Polybius	311345	46	1.48	12	0.39	22.50	0.72
Pseudo-Apollodorus	35087	170	48.45	157	44.75	161.33	45.98
Sophocles	61714	120	19.44	88	14.26	103.83	16.82
Strabo	144158	84	5.83	67	4.65	73.17	5.08
Theocritus	21261	44	20.70	39	18.34	40.92	19.24
Theophrastus	6716	3	4.47	3	4.47	3	4.47
Thucydides	150116	15	1.00	14	0.93	14.33	0.95
Xenophon	312275	352	11.27	35	1.12	121.25	3.88