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These n-grams are based on the largest publicly-available, genre-balanced corpus
of English -- the Corpus of
Contemporary American English (COCA) (Note that the data is from
when it was about 430 million words in size; it continues to grow each year). With this n-grams data (2,
3, 4, 5-word sequences, with their frequency), you can carry
out powerful queries offline -- without needing to access the
corpus via the web interface. Short sample:
| |
|
frequency |
word1 |
word2 |
word3 |
|
1419
|
much
|
the
|
same
|
|
461
|
much
|
more
|
likely
|
|
432
|
much
|
better
|
than
|
|
266
|
much
|
more
|
difficult
|
|
235
|
much
|
of
|
the
|
|
226
|
much
|
more
|
than
|
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A few more examples (from among an
unlimited number of n-grams) might be:
The data is available in several different
formats:
| 1 |
Free lists |
1 million most
frequent 2, 3, 4, and 5-grams |
| 2 |
Inexpensive data sets
|
All n-grams that occur three times or more:
6.2 million
2-grams, 11.9 million 3-grams, and 8.3 million 4-grams |
| 3 |
All 2, 3, and 4-grams
|
Up to
155
million distinct strings -- searchable by word form and part of speech
(as above), and also lemma |
If you're interested in the frequency
of single words (including frequency by genre and sub-genre), or collocates (all
words "near by" a given word), you might look at
http://www.wordfrequency.info.
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