Ever wonder most frequently used word?
Friday, January 27, 2006 by Jason
If you ever wonder what words are being used most frequently, this website has got a really exciting answer. You can even search how much your interest word score.
For your quick reference ( As of Jan-27-2006 ):
No, no, sex is only 1236
news is 677
How it works? This is very simple for now:
WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it. The smaller the word, the more uncommon it is.
WordCount data currently comes from the British National Corpus®, a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent an accurate cross-section of current English usage. WordCount includes all words that occur at least twice in the BNC®. In the future, WordCount will be modified to track word usage within any desired text, website, and eventually the entire Internet.
Why don't you visit wordcount.org yourself and have some fun?
