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 â read across, not down.
| Measure | Swedish |
|---|---|
| Corpus size Tokens of subtitle dialogue counted â more data means a steadier ranking | 14.1M |
| Distinct word forms Unique surface forms found â a measure of morphology, not of quality | 230.2K |
| Words for half of speech Fewer is better â less vocabulary buys more of the language | 61 |
| Words for 80% Entries needed to cover 80% of running text | 1,484 |
| Top 100 covers Share of all speech carried by the 100 most common entries | 56.4% |
| Top 10 covers Share carried by the ten most common entries alone | 23.3% |
| Whole list covers Share of running text the full ranked list accounts for | 89.3% |
| Promoted phrases Multi-word units ranked alongside single words | 1,444 |
| Average word length Characters per word across the top 1,000 â descriptive, not a virtue | 5.0 |
Where each language's weight sits
Share of running text carried by each band. A front-loaded language rewards a small vocabulary more.
| Band | Swedish |
|---|---|
| Top 100 | 56.4% |
| 101â500 | 15.6% |
| 501â1,000 | 5.3% |
| 1,001â2,000 | 4.6% |
| 2,001â4,000 | 4.0% |
| 4,001â8,000 | 3.4% |
The five most common words in each
Ranked within their own corpus, translated to English.
Swedish
- 1 jag I
- 2 det it / that
- 3 Àr is
- 4 du you
- 5 inte not
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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 â rankings are sound, but not directly comparable with the set above.