Slovak
frequency dictionary
The Slovak frequency dictionary ranks the 9,291 most common Slovak words and phrases, measured across 77,117,948 tokens of subtitle dialogue from the OpenSubtitles corpus. Learning the top 196 Slovak entries covers half of everything said, and the top 5,818 covers 80%. The single most common Slovak word is “to” (that), which accounts for 3.2% of running text on its own. Every entry carries its rank, raw count, Zipf score, and an English translation.
Corpus
These 9,291 entries account for 82.2% of all running Slovak text in the corpus.
196 of them cover half of it.
Slovak at a glance
The short answers, straight from the corpus.
- Words for half of speech
- 196
- Words for 80%
- 5,818
- Most common word
- to
- Corpus size
- 77,117,948 tokens
Entries needed to cover 50% of everything said in Slovak
Entries needed to cover 80% of running Slovak text
“that” — said 2,500,825 times in the Slovak corpus
792,609 distinct Slovak word forms were counted
Mixed rounds
Slovak · All three modes, shuffled
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The ten most common Slovak entries
Together they cover 18.7% of everything said in the corpus.
- 1 to that 2.5M×
- 2 sa sa 1.8M×
- 3 je is 1.8M×
- 4 si si 1.5M×
- 5 som I am 1.4M×
- 6 a and 1.4M×
- 7 na on 1.1M×
- 8 že that 1.1M×
- 9 čo what 955.7K×
- 10 nie no 840.1K×
How far each slice of the list gets you
Share of running Slovak text covered by everything up to that rank.
The six bands, in Slovak
The same bands the game asks you to guess.
| Band | Entries | Phrases | Median Zipf | Text covered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top 100 | 100 | 1 | 6.34 | 42.7% |
| 101–500 | 400 | 21 | 5.57 | 17.3% |
| 501–1,000 | 500 | 50 | 5.08 | 6.4% |
| 1,001–2,000 | 1,000 | 113 | 4.74 | 5.8% |
| 2,001–4,000 | 2,000 | 210 | 4.39 | 5.2% |
| 4,001–8,000 | 4,000 | 455 | 4.06 | 4.8% |
Word shape
Character lengths across the Slovak top 1,000 — average 5.0.
Characters per word
Phrases that behave like words
1,011 multi-word units earned a rank of their own.
- #80 v poriadku okay
- #102 myslím že I think that
- #135 o tom about that
- #217 so mnou with me
- #220 s tebou with you
- #283 na tom on that
- #296 v tom in that
- #298 s ním with him
What stands out in Slovak
Read straight off this language's own numbers.
- Just 196 entries cover half of everything said in the Slovak subtitle corpus.
- The ten most common Slovak entries alone account for 18.7% of running text.
- 1,011 of the top 9,291 entries are multi-word phrases that behave like single units — the most common is “v poriadku”.
- The longest single word inside the Slovak top 1,000 is “pravdepodobne” (13 characters, rank 597).
- Most of the Slovak top 1,000 is short: 5-character words are the single largest group, and the average is 5.0 characters.
- Frequency falls away fast: the whole 4,001–8,000 band together covers only 4.8% of the corpus.
How this Slovak ranking was calculated
Built once, offline, and shipped as static data.
The source is the Slovak side of OpenSubtitles v2018 via OPUS — 77,117,948 tokens of transcribed speech, which is closer to how people talk than a newspaper or Wikipedia corpus would be.
Words are counted using Slovak'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. 792,609 distinct words appear in all; the 9,291 most common are kept.
Repeated word sequences that hold together are promoted into the same ranking as single words, which is why 1,011 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. 86 of the 9,291 Slovak entries are still unresolved and are never used as game questions.
Common questions about Slovak word frequency
Answered from this language's own corpus.
How many Slovak words do you need to know?
Around 196 Slovak words and phrases cover half of everything said in ordinary speech, and about 5,818 cover 80%. Coverage climbs steeply at first and then flattens: the whole top 9,291 reaches 82.2%, so the last few thousand entries add far less than the first few hundred.
What are the most common Slovak words?
The ten most common Slovak entries are to (that), sa (sa), je (is), si (si), som (I am), a (and), na (on), že (that), čo (what) and nie (no). Together they account for 18.7% of all running Slovak text in the corpus.
What is the most common word in Slovak?
The most common Slovak word is “to”, meaning “that”. It appears 2,500,825 times across the corpus, which is 3.2% of everything said.
How is this Slovak frequency list calculated?
The list is built from the Slovak side of the OpenSubtitles corpus — 77,117,948 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 792,609 distinct forms found are ranked by raw count. The top 9,291 are kept, each with a per-million rate, a Zipf score, and its cumulative share of running text.
Does the Slovak list include phrases as well as words?
Yes. 1,011 of the 9,291 Slovak entries are multi-word phrases that repeat tightly enough to behave like single vocabulary items — the most common is “v poriadku” (okay), at rank 80. They are ranked alongside single words rather than in a separate list, because knowing them as units is what fluency looks like.
How much Slovak do the top 100 words cover?
The 100 most common Slovak entries cover 42.7% of running text by themselves. That is why they are worth learning first: no other 100 items in the language come close.
Is the Slovak frequency dictionary free to download?
Yes. All 9,205 translated Slovak 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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