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