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Word Frequencies in Greek and Latin


Frequencies for gamos
[frequencies for individual words are at the bottom of the page.]

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Maximum Minimum Weighted

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

Greek Texts 4844028 719 1.48 719 1.48 719 1.48

Greek Prose 4172940 403 0.97 403 0.97 403 0.97

DDBDP Greek Texts 3515144 243 0.69 243 0.69 243 0.69

Greek Poetry 671088 316 4.71 316 4.71 316 4.71

Greek Rhetoric 611183 18 0.29 18 0.29 18 0.29

Greek Drama 344198 238 6.91 238 6.91 238 6.91

Greek Tragedy 249401 221 8.86 221 8.86 221 8.86

Greek Hexameter 231322 42 1.82 42 1.82 42 1.82

		Maximum		Minimum		Weighted
Corpus	Words	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K
Aeschines	44356	2	0.45	2	0.45	2	0.45
Aeschylus	40104	26	6.48	26	6.48	26	6.48
Andocides	17424	0	0	0	0	0	0
Antiphon	18159	0	0	0	0	0	0
Apollonius Rhodius	38814	7	1.80	7	1.80	7	1.80
Appian	222458	24	1.08	24	1.08	24	1.08
Aristophanes	94797	17	1.79	17	1.79	17	1.79
Aristotle	303262	8	0.26	8	0.26	8	0.26
Bacchylides	4697	1	2.13	1	2.13	1	2.13
Callimachus	9538	6	6.29	6	6.29	6	6.29
Demades	2006	0	0	0	0	0	0
Demosthenes	294302	7	0.24	7	0.24	7	0.24
Dinarchus	10659	0	0	0	0	0	0
Diodorus	191882	17	0.89	17	0.89	17	0.89
Epictetus	84176	7	0.83	7	0.83	7	0.83
Euclid	152651	0	0	0	0	0	0
Euripides	147583	173	11.72	173	11.72	173	11.72
Flavius Josephus	467375	141	3.02	141	3.02	141	3.02
Herodotus	184921	19	1.03	19	1.03	19	1.03
Hesiod	16193	4	2.47	4	2.47	4	2.47
Homer	199047	35	1.76	35	1.76	35	1.76
Homeric Hymns	16082	3	1.87	3	1.87	3	1.87
Hyperides	11809	1	0.85	1	0.85	1	0.85
Isaeus	33315	3	0.90	3	0.90	3	0.90
Isocrates	111925	5	0.45	5	0.45	5	0.45
Lycurgus	10914	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lysias	56314	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Testament	137850	15	1.09	15	1.09	15	1.09
Old Oligarch	3195	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pausanias	218068	29	1.33	29	1.33	29	1.33
Pindar	21258	13	6.12	13	6.12	13	6.12
Plato	561388	59	1.05	59	1.05	59	1.05
Plutarch	74834	15	2.00	15	2.00	15	2.00
Polybius	311345	4	0.13	4	0.13	4	0.13
Pseudo-Apollodorus	35087	25	7.13	25	7.13	25	7.13
Sophocles	61714	22	3.56	22	3.56	22	3.56
Strabo	144158	10	0.69	10	0.69	10	0.69
Theocritus	21261	9	4.23	9	4.23	9	4.23
Theophrastus	6716	2	2.98	2	2.98	2	2.98
Thucydides	150116	0	0	0	0	0	0
Xenophon	312275	10	0.32	10	0.32	10	0.32