EEBO Word Frequency
Words and frequency counts culled from the EEBO TCP transcriptions (abridged to the first 2.3million).
| word | frequency |
|---|---|
| cause | 140,092 |
| little | 139,557 |
| its | 137,886 |
| ye | 137,463 |
| why | 136,783 |
| love | 135,610 |
| themselves | 135,552 |
| false | 134,783 |
| skill | 134,099 |
| set | 133,319 |
| rule | 133,042 |
| brought | 132,961 |
| wee | 132,948 |
| among | 132,692 |
| never | 132,668 |
| heart | 130,963 |
| 6 | 129,733 |
| / | 129,331 |
| words | 128,715 |
| p | 128,673 |
| either | 128,159 |
| thought | 127,525 |
| o | 127,522 |
| whole | 126,908 |
| give | 126,227 |
| strong | 125,809 |
| sent | 125,014 |
| under | 124,061 |
| self | 123,726 |
| father | 123,162 |
| course | 122,494 |
| state | 119,990 |
| worke | 117,860 |
| truth | 117,632 |
| neither | 115,941 |
| according | 115,911 |
| taken | 115,173 |
| prince | 114,618 |
| bring | 112,963 |
| three | 112,928 |
| indeed | 112,072 |
| himselfe | 111,909 |
| giuen | 111,554 |
| last | 109,176 |
| meane | 108,647 |
| right | 108,571 |
| hand | 106,573 |
| whether | 106,091 |
| shame | 105,690 |
| stay | 105,194 |
| s | 104,488 |
| new | 104,308 |
| sin | 104,041 |
| 7 | 103,792 |
| flesh | 103,709 |
| 8 | 103,454 |
| leaue | 102,847 |
| having | 102,751 |
| ever | 102,610 |
| c | 100,924 |
| together | 100,688 |
| est | 100,605 |
| found | 99,655 |
| neuer | 99,592 |
| whereof | 99,363 |
| use | 98,960 |
| pray | 98,674 |
| religion | 97,945 |
| matter | 97,848 |
| side | 97,235 |
| enemies | 96,930 |
| lay | 96,311 |
| light | 96,208 |
| rather | 95,855 |
| hearts | 95,764 |
| thereof | 95,215 |
| even | 94,987 |
| rest | 94,958 |
| l | 94,627 |
| house | 94,143 |
| 10 | 93,970 |
| fathers | 93,489 |
| sure | 92,759 |
| peace | 92,479 |
| over | 92,472 |
| sir | 92,291 |
| till | 91,932 |
| seeing | 91,892 |
| present | 91,595 |
| blame | 90,884 |
| still | 90,678 |
| manner | 90,607 |
| force | 90,571 |
| iohn | 90,408 |
| non | 90,196 |
| kind | 90,066 |
| persons | 90,015 |
| since | 89,707 |
| times | 89,602 |
| vse | 88,998 |
