Common Words Count
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Results
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Words in the 100 most common words:
Words in the 1,000 most common words:
Total words:
Some sample results
To round off, here are some results from a handful of literary classics (texts courtesy of Gutenberg.org):
| Title & author | Words in most common... | |
| 100 | 1,000 | |
| War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy | 47% | 73% |
| Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen | 50% | 82% |
| This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald | 45% | 72% |
| Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | 49% | 75% |
| Dracula by Bram Stoker | 53% | 81% |
| Middlemarch by George Eliot | 48% | 78% |
| The War of the Worlds by H G Wells | 47% | 73% |
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie | 48% | 78% |