| Rank in Wordlist | Word | Rank in Wordlist | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | 26 | or |
| 2 | and | 27 | all |
| 3 | to | 28 | an |
| 4 | of | 29 | not |
| 5 | a | 30 | we |
| 6 | in | 31 | your |
| 7 | is | 32 | has |
| 8 | for | 33 | can |
| 9 | on | 34 | but |
| 10 | that | 35 | their |
| 11 | The | 36 | one |
| 12 | I | 37 | which |
| 13 | with | 38 | his |
| 14 | be | 39 | they |
| 15 | was | 40 | were |
| 16 | you | 41 | This |
| 17 | are | 42 | up |
| 18 | it | 43 | about |
| 19 | as | 44 | been |
| 20 | at | 45 | Ascension |
| 21 | will | 46 | more |
| 22 | have | 47 | It |
| 23 | this | 48 | had |
| 24 | from | 49 | our |
| 25 | by | 50 | who |
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