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  2. Word list - Wikipedia

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    Word frequency is known to have various effects (Brysbaert et al. 2011; Rudell 1993). Memorization is positively affected by higher word frequency, likely because the learner is subject to more exposures (Laufer 1997). Lexical access is positively influenced by high word frequency, a phenomenon called word frequency effect (Segui et al.).

  3. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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    The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...

  4. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    Some lists of common words distinguish between word forms, while others rank all forms of a word as a single lexeme (the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary). For example, the lexeme be (as in to be) comprises all its conjugations (is, was, am, are, were, etc.), and contractions of those conjugations. [5]

  5. Zipf's law - Wikipedia

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    It is usually found that the most common word occurs approximately twice as often as the next common one, three times as often as the third most common, and so on. For example, in the Brown Corpus of American English text, the word "the" is the most frequently occurring word, and by itself accounts for nearly 7% of all word occurrences (69,971 ...

  6. File:English letter frequency (frequency).svg - Wikipedia

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    Storing graphs or charts as images makes it harder to change (correct or translate) them. Wikicharts also help making sure to be consistent in font and size. Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ македонски ∙ polski ∙ slovenščina ∙ +/−

  7. Frequency analysis - Wikipedia

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    Eve could use frequency analysis to help solve the message along the following lines: counts of the letters in the cryptogram show that I is the most common single letter, [2] XL most common bigram, and XLI is the most common trigram. e is the most common letter in the English language, th is the most common bigram, and the is the

  8. Word frequency effect - Wikipedia

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    The word frequency effect changes how the brain encodes the information. Readers began spelling the higher frequency words faster than the lower frequency words when spelling the words from dictation. The length of saccade varies depending on the frequency of words and the validity of the previous (preview) word in predicting the target word. [5]

  9. Wikipedia:Language learning centre/Word list - Top 1000 words ...

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