[Corpora-List] Common nouns in English and their frequencies

[Mark Davies]

Yorick,

>>  Does anyone have a handy link to common nouns of English and their frequencies?

"Common" noun meaning "frequent" nouns, or meaning "not proper" nouns?

>> I can see many to the most common words but not nouns.

Wouldn't it work to just download a full PoS list and then select just the nouns? E.g.:

COCA: http://www.wordfrequency.info/
BNC(1): http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/bncfreq/flists.html
BNC(2): http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readme.html

Or, via a web interface -- Top 1000 nouns (by lemma):

COCA: http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/?c=coca&q=6804341
BNC: http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/?c=bnc&q=6804353

Best,

Mark D.

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Subject: [Corpora-List] Common nouns in English and their frequencies

Does anyone have a handy link to common nouns of English and their frequencies? I can see many to the most common words but not nouns.
Yorick Wilks

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