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How can I put a list in frequency order?
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DougR6666 Newbie United States Joined 5103 days ago 7 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Spanish	Message 1 of 2 28 October 2016 at 10:58pm \| IP Logged
	I use vocabulary.com to study English vocabulary and it generates a nice list of words that I have studied. How can I put that list in order of frequency of use in the language? There must be some way. While I really like that website & app, I want to make my own flashcards and study the hardest words first. 1 person has voted this message useful
Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6688 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map	Message 2 of 2 11 November 2016 at 5:58pm \| IP Logged
	You need to download at least the first 1000 or so items of a frequency table with their frequencies from the internet. Put those words into one column in a spreadsheet and the frequencies in the next column. Then copy your own list to a third column (separated by some empty columns)and add a column with a lookup function alongside the column with your words so that it finds the frequencies for the words that occur in the frequency list. NB: there are some quirks about those functions. In some cases you need to sort the lookup-table into alphabetical order first, and there may also be parameters that indicate what happens when one of your own words isn't found there. I mention the limit at 1000 or so words because the differences above that basically are irrelevant - the differences among rarer words on such a list are totally overshadowed by differences in frequency caused by choice of genre, topic and style. Edited by Iversen on 11 November 2016 at 6:09pm 2 persons have voted this message useful

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