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Word Frequencies in Greek and Latin


Frequencies for kurios
[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 2160 4.46 661 1.36 1394.50 2.88

Greek Prose 4172940 2111 5.06 650 1.56 1365 3.27

DDBDP Greek Texts 3515144 15779 44.89 2385 6.78 8720.08 24.81

Greek Poetry 671088 49 0.73 11 0.16 29.50 0.44

Greek Rhetoric 611183 515 8.43 126 2.06 314.92 5.15

Greek Drama 344198 43 1.25 8 0.23 25 0.73

Greek Tragedy 249401 37 1.48 8 0.32 22 0.88

Greek Hexameter 231322 0 0 0 0 0 0

		Maximum		Minimum		Weighted
Corpus	Words	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K
Aeschines	44356	24	5.41	8	1.80	15.58	3.51
Aeschylus	40104	13	3.24	3	0.75	7.67	1.91
Andocides	17424	10	5.74	2	1.15	6	3.44
Antiphon	18159	4	2.20	2	1.10	2.50	1.38
Apollonius Rhodius	38814	0	0	0	0	0	0
Appian	222458	34	1.53	10	0.45	21.83	0.98
Aristophanes	94797	6	0.63	0	0	3	0.32
Aristotle	303262	335	11.05	118	3.89	222.17	7.33
Bacchylides	4697	0	0	0	0	0	0
Callimachus	9538	0	0	0	0	0	0
Demades	2006	0	0	0	0	0	0
Demosthenes	294302	322	10.94	77	2.62	196.67	6.68
Dinarchus	10659	8	7.51	1	0.94	4.50	4.22
Diodorus	191882	52	2.71	18	0.94	35	1.82
Epictetus	84176	67	7.96	32	3.80	49.50	5.88
Euclid	152651	0	0	0	0	0	0
Euripides	147583	17	1.15	5	0.34	11	0.75
Flavius Josephus	467375	60	1.28	20	0.43	39.58	0.85
Herodotus	184921	4	0.22	1	0.05	2.50	0.14
Hesiod	16193	0	0	0	0	0	0
Homer	199047	0	0	0	0	0	0
Homeric Hymns	16082	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hyperides	11809	10	8.47	7	5.93	8.50	7.20
Isaeus	33315	52	15.61	12	3.60	31.33	9.41
Isocrates	111925	64	5.72	8	0.71	34.83	3.11
Lycurgus	10914	4	3.67	1	0.92	2.50	2.29
Lysias	56314	17	3.02	8	1.42	12.50	2.22
New Testament	137850	713	51.72	223	16.18	467.50	33.91
Old Oligarch	3195	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pausanias	218068	5	0.23	3	0.14	4	0.18
Pindar	21258	6	2.82	3	1.41	4.50	2.12
Plato	561388	100	1.78	40	0.71	68.50	1.22
Plutarch	74834	21	2.81	5	0.67	13	1.74
Polybius	311345	132	4.24	34	1.09	80.75	2.59
Pseudo-Apollodorus	35087	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sophocles	61714	7	1.13	0	0	3.33	0.54
Strabo	144158	34	2.36	8	0.55	20.50	1.42
Theocritus	21261	0	0	0	0	0	0
Theophrastus	6716	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thucydides	150116	9	0.60	3	0.20	6	0.40
Xenophon	312275	30	0.96	9	0.29	19.25	0.62