rspeer/wordfreq

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wordfreq is a Python library that provides word frequency data for over 40 languages, drawn from multiple corpus sources. It offers functions to look up word frequencies as decimals or on a human-friendly Zipf logarithmic scale.

Use cases

• look up how frequently a word appears in English or another language
• get Zipf frequency scores for vocabulary words
• filter common vs rare words when building a language learning app
• score candidate keywords by frequency for NLP preprocessing
• compare word usage across multiple languages
• build a word game difficulty ranking based on word commonness

When to choose

• you need multilingual word frequency estimates in Python
• you want a simple API returning frequencies or Zipf values
• you need both small memory-efficient and large comprehensive wordlists
• you need CJK language frequency support with optional tokenizers

When to avoid

• you need up-to-date frequency data reflecting current language usage
• you need frequencies for languages beyond the 40+ supported ones
• you need real-time or streaming corpus analysis rather than a static snapshot
• you need a non-Python runtime

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nlp search-engine python cross-platform word-frequency corpus-data zipf-scale multilingual tokenization natural-language-processing linguistics

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