"most frequent word" is a perfectly valid and usable phrase in written English.
For example, "After analyzing the report, the most frequent word was 'sustainability'."
That is, the second most frequent word is used only half as often as the most frequent word, and the 100th most frequent word is used only one hundredth as often as the most frequent word.
"His most frequent word is 'unglücklich' — unhappy," Mr. Natter said.
Interestingly, in creating a musical "vocabulary," we found a well-known phenomenon common in written texts and many other domains: Zipf's law, which predicts that the most frequent word in a text will appear twice as often as the next most frequent word, three times as often as the third most frequent, and so on.
Another way of looking at this is that a rank r word occurs 1/r times as often as the most frequent word, so the rank 2 word occurs half as often as the rank 1 word, the rank 3 word one-third as often, the rank 4 word one-fourth as often, and so forth.
Create a new cluster c K+1 for the i th most frequent word, giving K + 1 clusters.
To develop this chart, we count all words used in the Moby Dick, from the most frequent word (i.e., the) to the least frequent word (i.e., aback).
According to a linguistic analysis of his campaign speeches by Damon Mayaffre, of the University of Nice, one of Mr Sarkozy's most frequent words is I, usually followed by the verb want.What does this say about France?
Mr. Sanford put it this way: "The most frequent words you probably heard in those CAT meetings four years ago is, 'This is a matter of principle, and we can't vote for this.' But I guess as time goes by and one becomes a more seasoned legislator, the best word now is, 'What can we trade off in this bill?' That is a pretty, pretty, pretty violent contrast".
Knowledge of only the 2000 most frequent word-families would typically mean that approximately one in every five words encountered in an academic English text will still be unknown and thereby render the text largely unintelligible (Nation & Waring, 1997).
Note that the most frequent words are not always the feature words.
In practice, only the top-N most frequent words are included.
