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Word Frequencies in Greek and Latin


Frequencies for gunê

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

Greek Texts 4844028 4931 10.18 4249 8.77 4590 9.48

Greek Prose 4172940 3636 8.71 3117 7.47 3376.50 8.09

DDBDP Greek Texts 3515144 2930 8.34 2870 8.16 2900 8.25

Greek Poetry 671088 1295 19.30 1132 16.87 1213.50 18.08

Greek Rhetoric 611183 470 7.69 431 7.05 450.50 7.37

Greek Drama 344198 902 26.21 811 23.56 856.50 24.88

Greek Tragedy 249401 658 26.38 596 23.90 627 25.14

Greek Hexameter 231322 308 13.31 247 10.68 277.50 12.00

		Maximum		Minimum		Weighted
Corpus	Words	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K
Aeschines	44356	27	6.09	25	5.64	26	5.86
Aeschylus	40104	84	20.95	66	16.46	75	18.70
Andocides	17424	12	6.89	10	5.74	11	6.31
Antiphon	18159	2	1.10	2	1.10	2	1.10
Apollonius Rhodius	38814	28	7.21	24	6.18	26	6.70
Appian	222458	164	7.37	126	5.66	145	6.52
Aristophanes	94797	244	25.74	215	22.68	229.50	24.21
Aristotle	303262	147	4.85	115	3.79	131	4.32
Bacchylides	4697	4	8.52	3	6.39	3.50	7.45
Callimachus	9538	12	12.58	11	11.53	11.50	12.06
Demades	2006	0	0	0	0	0	0
Demosthenes	294302	212	7.20	196	6.66	204	6.93
Dinarchus	10659	6	5.63	2	1.88	4	3.75
Diodorus	191882	135	7.04	100	5.21	117.50	6.12
Epictetus	84176	76	9.03	74	8.79	75	8.91
Euclid	152651	0	0	0	0	0	0
Euripides	147583	469	31.78	433	29.34	451	30.56
Flavius Josephus	467375	729	15.60	604	12.92	666.50	14.26
Herodotus	184921	373	20.17	328	17.74	350.50	18.95
Hesiod	16193	25	15.44	19	11.73	22	13.59
Homer	199047	263	13.21	213	10.70	238	11.96
Homeric Hymns	16082	20	12.44	15	9.33	17.50	10.88
Hyperides	11809	17	14.40	15	12.70	16	13.55
Isaeus	33315	103	30.92	102	30.62	102.50	30.77
Isocrates	111925	29	2.59	22	1.97	25.50	2.28
Lycurgus	10914	12	11.00	10	9.16	11	10.08
Lysias	56314	50	8.88	47	8.35	48.50	8.61
New Testament	137850	213	15.45	202	14.65	207.50	15.05
Old Oligarch	3195	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pausanias	218068	395	18.11	342	15.68	368.50	16.90
Pindar	21258	11	5.17	7	3.29	9	4.23
Plato	561388	298	5.31	230	4.10	264	4.70
Plutarch	74834	64	8.55	57	7.62	60.50	8.08
Polybius	311345	121	3.89	90	2.89	105.50	3.39
Pseudo-Apollodorus	35087	76	21.66	71	20.24	73.50	20.95
Sophocles	61714	105	17.01	97	15.72	101	16.37
Strabo	144158	76	5.27	63	4.37	69.50	4.82
Theocritus	21261	30	14.11	29	13.64	29.50	13.88
Theophrastus	6716	16	23.82	15	22.33	15.50	23.08
Thucydides	150116	34	2.26	32	2.13	33	2.20
Xenophon	312275	249	7.97	237	7.59	243	7.78