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. Read across, not down.

Comparison of the selected languages across key frequency measures
Measure Filipino
Corpus size Tokens of subtitle dialogue counted. More data means a steadier ranking103.1K
Distinct word forms Unique surface forms found. A measure of morphology, not of quality10.4K
Words for half of speech Fewer is better. Less vocabulary buys more of the language84
Words for 80% Entries needed to cover 80% of running text1,293
Top 100 covers Share of all speech carried by the 100 most common entries52.1%
Top 10 covers Share carried by the ten most common entries alone25.0%
Whole list covers Share of running text the full ranked list accounts for95.9%
Promoted phrases Multi-word units ranked alongside single words79
Average word length Characters per word across the top 1,000. Descriptive, not a virtue5.7

Where each language's weight sits

Share of running text carried by each band. A front-loaded language rewards a small vocabulary more.

Share of running text covered by each frequency band
BandFilipino
Top 100 52.1%
101–500 17.8%
501–1,000 7.5%
1,001–2,000 6.9%
2,001–4,000 6.2%
4,001–8,000 5.4%

The five most common words in each

Ranked within their own corpus, translated to English.

Filipino

  1. 1 ang the
  2. 2 sa to / in
  3. 3 na that
  4. 4 ng of
  5. 5 mo you

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