| Rank in Wordlist | Word | Rank in Wordlist | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | 26 | from |
| 2 | of | 27 | this |
| 3 | and | 28 | will |
| 4 | to | 29 | or |
| 5 | a | 30 | had |
| 6 | in | 31 | which |
| 7 | is | 32 | but |
| 8 | that | 33 | they |
| 9 | for | 34 | an |
| 10 | by | 35 | we |
| 11 | I | 36 | all |
| 12 | was | 37 | their |
| 13 | The | 38 | has |
| 14 | with | 39 | were |
| 15 | on | 40 | her |
| 16 | as | 41 | one |
| 17 | it | 42 | said |
| 18 | be | 43 | who |
| 19 | at | 44 | my |
| 20 | you | 45 | on the |
| 21 | are | 46 | him |
| 22 | he | 47 | your |
| 23 | not | 48 | been |
| 24 | his | 49 | can |
| 25 | have | 50 | our |
The table shows the top-50 words of the corpus. Usually we see stopwords.
Language: Afrikaans
This list is a good candidate for a first stopword list for a language.
Usually a small, balanced corpus is enough to get a good list of high frequent words. But if the small corpus has some very prominent topic, this will be visible even in the top word lists.
select w_id-100 as rank_in_wordlist, word from words where w_id>100 order by w_id limit 50;
3.4 Sample words for different frequency ranges