Which language gives you more?
Pick up to 4 languages and see them measured against each other: how many words reach half of everyday speech, how much of the language the top 100 carries, and how steeply each frequency curve falls away.
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The best value in each row is marked โ read across, not down.
| Measure | Korean |
|---|---|
| Corpus size Tokens of subtitle dialogue counted โ more data means a steadier ranking | 8.4M |
| Distinct word forms Unique surface forms found โ a measure of morphology, not of quality | 722.8K |
| Words for half of speech Fewer is better โ less vocabulary buys more of the language | 1,738 |
| Words for 80% Entries needed to cover 80% of running text | โ |
| Top 100 covers Share of all speech carried by the 100 most common entries | 19.4% |
| Top 10 covers Share carried by the ten most common entries alone | 4.5% |
| Whole list covers Share of running text the full ranked list accounts for | 65.5% |
| Promoted phrases Multi-word units ranked alongside single words | 381 |
| Average word length Characters per word across the top 1,000 โ descriptive, not a virtue | 2.5 |
Where each language's weight sits
Share of running text carried by each band. A front-loaded language rewards a small vocabulary more.
| Band | Korean |
|---|---|
| Top 100 | 19.4% |
| 101โ500 | 17.3% |
| 501โ1,000 | 7.5% |
| 1,001โ2,000 | 7.3% |
| 2,001โ4,000 | 7.2% |
| 4,001โ8,000 | 6.9% |
The five most common words in each
Ranked within their own corpus, translated to English.
Korean
- 1 ๋ด๊ฐ I
- 2 ๋ I
- 3 ๊ทธ That
- 4 ์ No
- 5 ๋ด My / Mine
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The first 23 are built from the same 2,166 films, so their rankings can be compared directly.
Built from each language's own films โ rankings are sound, but not directly comparable with the set above.