words usage database?

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Asked 30/8, 2011 at 19:40 Answered 30/8, 2011 at 19:43

Is there any free database/place out there with commonality/usage ratios of English words? (British or U.S. English, doesn't matter)

I don't care about the exact numbers, only relative to eachother. Something like:

the | 0.2
car | 0.08
chroma | 0.005
overspread | 0.0000007

Edit:

I have found http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary%3aFrequency_lists which I can scrape for data. However I would prefer an sql-format which is easier to work with.

Forelimb answered 30/8, 2011 at 19:40 Comment(3)

The relativities will depend on the age, race, sex, dialect, nationality, ... of the person. Seems rather a futile exercise to either collect or try to use that information IMHO – Pallid 30/8, 2011 at 19:45

@Ed Heal - I'm looking for the general usage frequencies over the entire population. The source doesn't matter exactly, and it needn't be overly accurate, only usable. – Forelimb 30/8, 2011 at 20:26

Hi @manixrock, it has been four years since you asked this question. Have you found your satisfied source? – Crabber 14/8, 2015 at 5:58

The term you want to google is "word frequency". One of the top hits is http://www.wordfrequency.info/

Frondescence answered 30/8, 2011 at 19:43 Comment(3)

That link is just for the written word! Differs somewhat from usage. – Pallid 30/8, 2011 at 19:47

The link is not free. They only provide demos with 1% of the words. You have to pay $195 for academic purposes. – Forelimb 30/8, 2011 at 20:24

There are other google hits there for you, did you try? The corpus they extracted the information from is Available, so you could attempt it yourself. Or just go with en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English which is also among the results. – Frondescence 30/8, 2011 at 20:39

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