Frequency of Use Analysis
Modern Prose

The analysis is made from a 9,635,811 character (nine point six million) source data file which contains total of 1,711,549 words plus spaces, punctuation and formatting. This data was compiled from selected modern novels by various authors available free to download in e-text form from the Baen Free Library publisher's website.

The e-texts were saved as text only files and edited to remove all non-author information. They were then amalgamated into one large file and processed for analysis (see Note).

See the "Frequency of Use" percentages page for a detailed analysis of the keying percentages from which the above graphs were made. Note how punctuation is used more then some letters.

These are the "Top 100" words with accumulative percentages. This constitutes 50% of all words used by the authors.

Here are a selection of the longest common words (15 characters or more) derived from the analysis. N.B. Proper and specialised names are not included. The longest word, " uncharacteristically ", is only 20 characters in length and is used only ten times.

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Note: This condensing and editing has been done for analysis purposes only and e-texts copied for normal use should not have their content changed or parts removed.