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1000 most common words

Summary by johndcook.com
Last week I wrote about a hypothetical radio station that plays the top 100 songs in some genre, with songs being chosen randomly according to Zipf’s law. The nth most popular song is played with probability proportional to 1/n. This post is a variation on that post looking at text consisting of the the 1,000 most common words in a language, where word frequencies follow Zipf’s law. How many words of text would you expect to read until you’ve se…
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johndcook.com broke the news in on Tuesday, April 15, 2025.
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