Kazakh
frequency dictionary
The Kazakh frequency dictionary ranks the 4,738 most common Kazakh words and phrases, measured across 14,283 tokens of subtitle dialogue from the OpenSubtitles corpus. Learning the top 268 Kazakh entries covers half of everything said, and the top 1,882 covers 80%. The single most common Kazakh word is “мен” (I), which accounts for 2.6% of running text on its own. Every entry carries its rank, raw count, Zipf score, and an English translation.
Corpus
These 4,738 entries account for 94.8% of all running Kazakh text in the corpus.
268 of them cover half of it.
Kazakh at a glance
The short answers, straight from the corpus.
- Words for half of speech
- 268
- Words for 80%
- 1,882
- Most common word
- мен
- Corpus size
- 14,283 tokens
Entries needed to cover 50% of everything said in Kazakh
Entries needed to cover 80% of running Kazakh text
“I” — said 365 times in the Kazakh corpus
4,738 distinct Kazakh word forms were counted
Mixed rounds
Kazakh · All three modes, shuffled
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The ten most common Kazakh entries
Together they cover 11.3% of everything said in the corpus.
- 1 мен I 365×
- 2 ол he / that 222×
- 3 жоқ no 165×
- 4 сен you 163×
- 5 не what 154×
- 6 бұл this 140×
- 7 керек need / necessary 111×
- 8 оны him 102×
- 9 ба to / ba 99×
- 10 жақсы good 97×
How far each slice of the list gets you
Share of running Kazakh text covered by everything up to that rank.
The six bands, in Kazakh
The same bands the game asks you to guess.
| Band | Entries | Phrases | Median Zipf | Text covered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top 100 | 100 | 0 | 6.41 | 36.8% |
| 101–500 | 400 | 0 | 5.69 | 22.3% |
| 501–1,000 | 500 | 0 | 5.32 | 10.7% |
| 1,001–2,000 | 1,000 | 0 | 5.15 | 11.1% |
| 2,001–4,000 | 2,000 | 0 | 4.85 | 14.0% |
| 4,001–8,000 | 738 | 0 | 4.85 | 5.2% |
Word shape
Character lengths across the Kazakh top 1,000 — average 5.6.
Characters per word
Phrases that behave like words
0 multi-word units earned a rank of their own.
No multi-word unit in Kazakh was repeated tightly enough to earn its own rank — which is itself a fact about the language's corpus.
What stands out in Kazakh
Read straight off this language's own numbers.
- Just 268 entries cover half of everything said in the Kazakh subtitle corpus.
- The ten most common Kazakh entries alone account for 11.3% of running text.
- The longest single word inside the Kazakh top 1,000 is “келісімшартқа” (13 characters, rank 757).
- Most of the Kazakh top 1,000 is short: 5-character words are the single largest group, and the average is 5.6 characters.
- Frequency falls away fast: the whole 4,001–8,000 band together covers only 5.2% of the corpus.
How this Kazakh ranking was calculated
Built once, offline, and shipped as static data.
The source is the Kazakh side of OpenSubtitles v2018 via OPUS — 14,283 tokens of transcribed speech, which is closer to how people talk than a newspaper or Wikipedia corpus would be.
Words are counted using Kazakh's own rules rather than by splitting on spaces, so the counts hold up for writing systems that do not put spaces between words. Timings, formatting and speaker names are stripped out first. 4,738 distinct words appear in all; the 4,738 most common are kept.
Repeated word sequences that hold together are promoted into the same ranking as single words, which is why 0 entries here are phrases. Each entry carries a raw count, a per-million rate, a Zipf score, and the cumulative share of running text it and everything above it cover.
English glosses come from a translation cascade with per-entry provenance, and anything the translators only echoed back is marked unresolved rather than presented as a translation. 2 of the 4,738 Kazakh entries are still unresolved and are never used as game questions.
Common questions about Kazakh word frequency
Answered from this language's own corpus.
How many Kazakh words do you need to know?
Around 268 Kazakh words and phrases cover half of everything said in ordinary speech, and about 1,882 cover 80%. Coverage climbs steeply at first and then flattens: the whole top 4,738 reaches 94.8%, so the last few thousand entries add far less than the first few hundred.
What are the most common Kazakh words?
The ten most common Kazakh entries are мен (I), ол (he / that), жоқ (no), сен (you), не (what), бұл (this), керек (need / necessary), оны (him), ба (to / ba) and жақсы (good). Together they account for 11.3% of all running Kazakh text in the corpus.
What is the most common word in Kazakh?
The most common Kazakh word is “мен”, meaning “I”. It appears 365 times across the corpus, which is 2.6% of everything said.
How is this Kazakh frequency list calculated?
The list is built from the Kazakh side of the OpenSubtitles corpus — 14,283 tokens of transcribed dialogue, which reflects spoken language far more closely than a news or encyclopedia corpus. Text is tokenised with Unicode word boundaries, subtitle timing and formatting are stripped, and the 4,738 distinct forms found are ranked by raw count. The top 4,738 are kept, each with a per-million rate, a Zipf score, and its cumulative share of running text.
How much Kazakh do the top 100 words cover?
The 100 most common Kazakh entries cover 36.8% of running text by themselves. That is why they are worth learning first: no other 100 items in the language come close.
Is the Kazakh frequency dictionary free to download?
Yes. All 4,736 translated Kazakh entries can be exported as JSON, CSV, TSV, Markdown, or an Anki deck straight from the dictionary page, with no account and no sign-up. The data is prebuilt and served as static files.
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