Statistics about word frequencies in different languages based on a corpus of movie subtitles as extracted by the Frequency Words (https://github.com/hermitdave/FrequencyWords) project.

Currently supported languages (or language codes to be more precise :):

"da", "de", "el", "en", "es", "fr", "it", "nl", "no", "pl", "pt", "ro", "zh-CN" 

Usage Examples

Getting the info about a given word

>> from wordstats import Word
>> print (Word.stats('bleu', 'fr'))
bleu: (lang: fr, rank: 1521, freq: 9.42, imp: 9.42, diff: 0.03, klevel: 2)

Comparing the difficulty of two German words

>> from wordstats import Word
>> Word.stats('blauzungekrankenheit','de').difficulty > Word.stats('blau','de').difficulty
True

Top 10 most used words in Dutch

>> from wordstats import LanguageInfo
>> Dutch = LanguageInfo.load('nl')
>> print(Dutch.all_words()[:10])
['ik', 'je', 'het', 'de', 'dat', 'is', 'een', 'niet', 'en', 'van']

Words common across all the languages

Given that the corpus is based on subtitles, some common names have sliped in. The common_words() function returns a list.

>> from wordstats.common_words import common_words
>> for each in common_words():
>>     if len(each) > 9:
>>         print(each)
washington
christopher
enterprise

Words that are the same in Polish and Romanian

>> from wordstats import LanguageInfo
>> Polish = LanguageInfo.load("pl")
>> Romanian = LanguageInfo.load("ro")
>> for each in Polish.all_words():
>>     if each in Romanian.all_words():
>>         if len(each) > 5 and each not in common_words():
>>             print(each)
telefon
moment
prezent
interes
...

Installation

pip install wordstats