word rank | frequency | n-gram |
---|---|---|
1 | 4052 | მ- |
2 | 3637 | გ- |
3 | 2801 | ს- |
4 | 2645 | დ- |
5 | 2427 | ა- |
word rank | frequency | n-gram |
---|---|---|
1 | 2903 | გა- |
2 | 2025 | და- |
3 | 1557 | სა- |
4 | 1293 | მო- |
5 | 1246 | შე- |
word rank | frequency | n-gram |
---|---|---|
1 | 701 | გამ- |
2 | 492 | გად- |
3 | 405 | გან- |
4 | 260 | პრო- |
5 | 259 | სამ- |
word rank | frequency | n-gram |
---|---|---|
1 | 526 | გამო- |
2 | 457 | გადა- |
3 | 124 | დასა- |
4 | 120 | წარმ- |
5 | 115 | თანა- |
word rank | frequency | n-gram |
---|---|---|
1 | 99 | წარმო- |
2 | 67 | ინტერ- |
3 | 66 | სახელ- |
4 | 65 | თანამ- |
5 | 63 | გამოვ- |
The tables show the most frequent letter-N-grams at the beginning of words for N=1…5. Their frequency is count without multiplicity, otherwise the stopwords would dominate the tables.
As shown in the above example (German), word prefixes are clearly visible. In the above example, ver- and ein- are prefixes, and Sch- is not. At the end of a prefix we typically have a wide variety of possible continuations. Hence a prefix of length k will be prominent in the table for N=k, but typically not in the table for N=k+1. The prominent entries Schw- and Schl- for N=4 tell us that Sch- is no prefix.
Zipf’s diagram is plotted with both axis in logarithmic scale, hence we expect nearly straight lines. The graphs look more typical for larger N. Especially for N=3 we find only a small number of trigrams resulting in a sharp decay.
For a language unknown to the reader, the data can easily be used to see whether prefixes do exist and to find the most prominent examples.
For counting, only words with a minimum character length of 10 were considered.
Because only a word list is needed, the tables above can be generated from a relatively small corpus.
For N=3:
SELECT @pos:=(@pos+1), xx.* from (SELECT @pos:=0) r, (select count(*) as cnt, concat(left(word,3),"-") FROM words WHERE w_id>100 group by left(word,3) order by cnt desc) xx limit 5;
For more insight in a language, longer lists might be useful.
Is there a need for larger N
Most frequent word endings
Most frequent letter-N-grams
Number of letter-N-Grams at word beginnings
Number of letter-N-Grams at word endings