list of common words

[Javier]

Since you are mentioning 'a software available to scan a passage', and 
considering that we are in info-childes (and to my knowledge nobody 
mentioned it here) this simple command (assuming that your passage is saved 
in plain txt) would pool out a list of words in the passage (sorted by 
descending frequency):

freq +y +o your_passage.txt

Hope this helps,
Javier


El jueves, 5 de junio de 2014 16:19:31 UTC+2, Dale, Philip escribió:
>
>  I have the memory that there is a list somewhere of the 3000 (?) most 
> common words in English, which can be used by exclusion to measure the use 
> of ‘rare’ words. Can someone point me to that list? Even better, is there 
> software available to scan a passage and compute the number of common vs. 
> rare wrods?  Many thanks.
>
> Philip Dale
>
>  
>  

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