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Why the most common word is twice as common as the next: Zipf's law
Sort every word in a book from most to least common and a pattern appears: the top word is about twice as common as the second, three times as common as the…
Why the most common words are the shortest: Zipf's two laws of language
Count the words in almost any long text and a strange pattern appears: the most common word turns up about twice as often as the second, three times as often…