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A few words do a lot of the work.

A plot of word frequency against rank for English texts, illustrating Zipf’s law.

Word frequencies often follow a striking uneven pattern. Explore a statistical regularity that appears in language and invites comparisons with other complex systems.

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Creator: Jorge Stolfi

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