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Word Frequencies in Greek and Latin


Frequencies for zeô

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Maximum Minimum Weighted

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

Greek Texts 4844028 1688 3.48 38 0.08 839.42 1.73

Greek Prose 4172940 1250 3.00 21 0.05 617.50 1.48

DDBDP Greek Texts 3515144 155 0.44 1 0.00 77.17 0.22

Greek Poetry 671088 438 6.53 17 0.25 221.92 3.31

Greek Rhetoric 611183 244 3.99 0 0 117.83 1.93

Greek Drama 344198 338 9.82 3 0.09 165.58 4.81

Greek Tragedy 249401 273 10.95 3 0.12 133.25 5.34

Greek Hexameter 231322 64 2.77 8 0.35 35.33 1.53

		Maximum		Minimum		Weighted
Corpus	Words	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K
Aeschines	44356	10	2.25	0	0	4.83	1.09
Aeschylus	40104	36	8.98	1	0.25	18.33	4.57
Andocides	17424	7	4.02	0	0	3.33	1.91
Antiphon	18159	7	3.85	0	0	3.33	1.84
Apollonius Rhodius	38814	5	1.29	3	0.77	4	1.03
Appian	222458	4	0.18	0	0	1.83	0.08
Aristophanes	94797	65	6.86	0	0	32.33	3.41
Aristotle	303262	185	6.10	1	0.03	90.67	2.99
Bacchylides	4697	2	4.26	0	0	1	2.13
Callimachus	9538	7	7.34	0	0	3.50	3.67
Demades	2006	2	9.97	0	0	1	4.99
Demosthenes	294302	104	3.53	0	0	49.83	1.69
Dinarchus	10659	4	3.75	0	0	2	1.88
Diodorus	191882	48	2.50	0	0	23.83	1.24
Epictetus	84176	48	5.70	0	0	23.50	2.79
Euclid	152651	0	0	0	0	0	0
Euripides	147583	139	9.42	1	0.07	66.58	4.51
Flavius Josephus	467375	169	3.62	3	0.06	85.33	1.83
Herodotus	184921	13	0.70	3	0.16	7.17	0.39
Hesiod	16193	4	2.47	3	1.85	3.33	2.06
Homer	199047	58	2.91	4	0.20	30.50	1.53
Homeric Hymns	16082	2	1.24	1	0.62	1.50	0.93
Hyperides	11809	4	3.39	0	0	2	1.69
Isaeus	33315	20	6.00	0	0	9.83	2.95
Isocrates	111925	63	5.63	0	0	31	2.77
Lycurgus	10914	9	8.25	0	0	4.33	3.97
Lysias	56314	14	2.49	0	0	6.33	1.12
New Testament	137850	53	3.84	2	0.15	27	1.96
Old Oligarch	3195	2	6.26	0	0	1	3.13
Pausanias	218068	12	0.55	2	0.09	7	0.32
Pindar	21258	16	7.53	1	0.47	8.50	4.00
Plato	561388	287	5.11	10	0.18	143.17	2.55
Plutarch	74834	10	1.34	0	0	5	0.67
Polybius	311345	49	1.57	0	0	24.17	0.78
Pseudo-Apollodorus	35087	3	0.86	0	0	1.50	0.43
Sophocles	61714	98	15.88	1	0.16	48.33	7.83
Strabo	144158	23	1.60	0	0	10.17	0.71
Theocritus	21261	6	2.82	2	0.94	4	1.88
Theophrastus	6716	1	1.49	0	0	0.50	0.74
Thucydides	150116	4	0.27	0	0	1.67	0.11
Xenophon	312275	95	3.04	0	0	46.17	1.48