| Rank in Wordlist | Word | Rank in Wordlist | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | 26 | aan |
| 2 | en | 27 | ook |
| 3 | van | 28 | jou |
| 4 | is | 29 | jy |
| 5 | nie | 30 | ek |
| 6 | in | 31 | my |
| 7 | het | 32 | maar |
| 8 | wat | 33 | hy |
| 9 | n | 34 | julle |
| 10 | te | 35 | se |
| 11 | vir | 36 | was |
| 12 | dit | 37 | deur |
| 13 | om | 38 | Ek |
| 14 | met | 39 | na |
| 15 | op | 40 | hierdie |
| 16 | ons | 41 | of |
| 17 | word | 42 | by |
| 18 | hulle | 43 | so |
| 19 | Die | 44 | dan |
| 20 | as | 45 | ‘n |
| 21 | sal | 46 | moet |
| 22 | sy | 47 | daar |
| 23 | ’n | 48 | baie |
| 24 | dat | 49 | nou |
| 25 | kan | 50 | tot |
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