Afrikaans word frequency list
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- Words
- 443,747
- Corpus
- 37.6M+ tokens
- Format
- CSV
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
What you get.
- 443,747 Afrikaans words ranked by frequency, one row each.
- Columns: rank, word, raw count, Zipf score, and a proper-noun flag.
- Frequencies blend Afrikaans Wikipedia (37.6M tokens) with OpenSubtitles (0.83M tokens), Zipf-averaged so everyday spoken vocabulary isn't under-rated by the encyclopedic register.
- Plain CSV — open it in a spreadsheet, or load it in Python/R for your own analysis.
From download to first review.
Download the CSV
Grab the file below (15 MB). It opens in any spreadsheet, or read it with pandas / readr for analysis.
Learn the common words first
Sort by rank and work down — the most frequent few thousand words cover the bulk of everyday text. This is the frequency-first idea behind our methodology.
Or let Lector do it for you
Lector uses this frequency data to order its cloze practice and highlight new words as you read, so you meet common words first automatically.
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Good to know.
A CSV of 443,747 Afrikaans words, each with its frequency rank, raw count, Zipf score, and a proper-noun flag. It's ordered most-common first.
It blends Afrikaans Wikipedia (37.6M tokens, written register) with OpenSubtitles (0.83M tokens, spoken), Zipf-averaged so spoken vocabulary isn't under-rated. Full provenance is on the reference data page.
443,747 words. In practice the most frequent few thousand cover the vast majority of everyday text, which is why studying in frequency order is so efficient.
Yes — it's licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, so you're free to use and adapt it with attribution and share-alike. It's compiled from open corpora.
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