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Zipf's law

Zipf's law is an empirical law stating that given some corpus of natural language utterances, the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table. Thus the most frequent word will occur approximately twice as often as the second most frequent word, three times as often as the third most frequent word, and so on. It is often used in linguistics to analyze word distributions.

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