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Extract basic frequency lists from user texts or corpora; download influential frequency lists including AWL and Français Fondamental .  
• For related analyses check Coverage (frequency in a corpus), Keywords (text vs. general frequency), and Range (frequency across texts).
• Get within-word or within-family frequencies with keyword and starts-with sorts at Concordancers (Eng & Fr)   ?  
For new takes on freq & learning check Cobb 2013 (>Freq 2.0) and Crossley, Cobb & McNamara (2013) (Band vs. Point Freq)
> FREQUENCY INDEXERS

1. Basic French andEnglish as shown here ➔

2.   The Compleat Lister  

3. Frequency Trainer Game (English)  

Test and increase your frequency awareness: sort words into 1-2k, 3-5k, 6-10k, 11-15k piles

4. Classic Frequency Lists for download

5. Corpus to Frequency List    
    New Sept '23: list by types, lemmas or families;
    size upgrade to 2 million

6. Nuclear List Builder
    NEW (Sept 2021) Trim Full-family BNC/Coca lists to just those members that are frequent in a corpus (including your own corpus)

 

  Sample output for 1 + 2
	Tokens:	200
	Types:	122
	Ratio:	0.6100
	Sort:	descending
	---------------------------------------------------------
	RANK 	FREQ 	COVERAGE			WORD 
	 	 	individual	cumulative 
	---------------------------------------------------------
	1.	11  	 5.50% 		5.50% 		THE
	2.	9  	 4.50% 		10.00% 		HIS
	3.	6  	 3.00% 		13.00% 		FOR
	4.	5  	 2.50% 		15.50% 		OF
	5.	5  	 2.50% 		18.00% 		TO
	6.	4  	 2.00% 		20.00% 		DAY
	7.	4  	 2.00% 		22.00% 		HANGER
	8.	4  	 2.00% 		24.00% 		HE
	9.	4  	 2.00% 		26.00% 		IN
	10.	4  	 2.00% 		28.00% 		MP  
	
Eng & Fr Freq programs by Cathy Bailey, Georgetown, adapted T Cobb; Compleat Lister and Freq Train by T. Cobb, latter employing both BNC and BNC/Coca lists