Word tokens

Words characteristic of early_modern_science

Word frequency data from early modern science writing, Boyle to Osler

Ranked by Zipf delta: how much more common a word is here than its average across the 18 other corpora (19th_books, 20th_books, wiki_math, wiki_geography, wiki_biology, wiki_modern_life, wiki_arts, wiki_society, wiki_linguistics, wiki_physical_science, wiki_history, religious_translated, cooking, legal_scotus, eu_parliament_debates, openstax_science, openstax_society, wpa_life_histories). +1.00 means ten times as common here. The ranks beside it say the same thing in readable terms — they are not used for sorting, because the corpora are different sizes and rank 500 does not mean the same thing in each.
Most skewed toward early_modern_science 100 shown
Word Zipf Δ Rank here Mean rank elsewhere Rank ratio Corpora
Glass +1.45 387 7190 18.6× 4
Salt +1.32 834 8531 10.2× 3
Fire +1.14 506 5434 10.7× 7
chalk +1.13 1256 7901 6.3× 4
sun +1.11 126 2480 19.7× 16
sulphur +1.10 1554 8947 5.8× 2
miles +1.04 178 2488 14.0× 11
earth +1.03 122 2142 17.6× 16
species +1.01 82 1690 20.6× 16
feet +1.01 145 2139 14.8× 18
comparatively +1.00 1161 6371 5.5× 5
earth's +1.00 775 5650 7.3× 3
remarkable +1.00 363 3325 9.2× 11
experiment +0.98 298 3387 11.4× 14
peculiar +0.97 310 2706 8.7× 6
ascertained +0.96 1725 7879 4.6× 3
inches +0.95 408 3777 9.3× 11
divers +0.94 979 5719 5.8× 3
effected +0.92 1433 6732 4.7× 4
planet +0.91 328 3641 11.1× 8
experiments +0.89 361 3547 9.8× 14
revolving +0.89 2280 8696 3.8× 3
fig +0.89 947 5448 5.8× 5
Nature +0.89 359 2964 8.3× 10
patient +0.87 355 2753 7.8× 12
phenomena +0.87 444 3930 8.9× 11
spark +0.87 1225 5188 4.2× 3
bodies +0.86 184 1790 9.7× 17
chiefly +0.86 1131 5210 4.6× 8
suns +0.85 2533 9075 3.6× 2
favourable +0.85 1588 6650 4.2× 3
cleanliness +0.85 2764 9287 3.4× 2
stars +0.85 155 1823 11.8× 12
compounded +0.85 1444 6718 4.7× 3
heat +0.84 169 2187 12.9× 16
contiguous +0.84 2444 8485 3.5× 2
birds +0.83 223 2234 10.0× 15
we +0.83 27 574 21.3× 18
acid +0.83 140 2617 18.7× 8
violet +0.83 681 4323 6.3× 6
distance +0.83 152 1678 11.0× 17
moon +0.83 302 2752 9.1× 12
I +0.83 15 248 16.6× 18
quantity +0.82 293 2771 9.5× 16
islands +0.82 351 3079 8.8× 12
improbable +0.82 2651 8615 3.2× 4
tar +0.81 2916 9458 3.2× 3
retort +0.81 2247 7479 3.3× 2
substance +0.81 306 2537 8.3× 15
colours +0.81 529 3392 6.4× 8
globe +0.81 640 4015 6.3× 6
our +0.80 63 1060 16.8× 18
distant +0.80 470 3343 7.1× 15
observations +0.80 407 3325 8.2× 13
wick +0.78 2810 8762 3.1× 2
disengaged +0.78 2301 7498 3.3× 2
proportion +0.78 458 3052 6.7× 18
apparatus +0.77 600 3412 5.7× 6
air +0.77 95 896 9.4× 18
seems +0.77 195 1635 8.4× 18
furnace +0.77 1355 5417 4.0× 6
strata +0.77 1142 5153 4.5× 4
flame +0.76 397 2665 6.7× 8
upon +0.76 59 485 8.2× 18
probable +0.76 678 3301 4.9× 5
curious +0.76 498 3439 6.9× 5
great +0.76 61 484 7.9× 18
tides +0.76 1081 5603 5.2× 4
Animal +0.75 2759 8025 2.9× 2
nurse +0.75 675 3719 5.5× 5
star +0.75 299 2351 7.9× 14
trees +0.75 278 2485 8.9× 17
sick +0.75 390 2367 6.1× 6
peculiarities +0.75 2246 7065 3.1× 2
striking +0.75 726 3717 5.1× 11
lime +0.74 653 3487 5.3× 5
supposed +0.74 468 2669 5.7× 13
sun's +0.74 1785 5982 3.4× 3
discharge +0.73 755 4074 5.4× 11
beam +0.73 626 3727 6.0× 7
yet +0.73 94 746 7.9× 18
afforded +0.73 1672 5635 3.4× 6
gas +0.73 192 1740 9.1× 15
blue +0.73 329 2373 7.2× 18
contrivance +0.73 3179 9124 2.9× 2
observation +0.72 438 2557 5.8× 14
electricity +0.72 453 2950 6.5× 11
sparks +0.72 2951 8341 2.8× 4
candle +0.72 370 2157 5.8× 4
glass +0.72 264 2257 8.5× 14
speculations +0.72 3071 8684 2.8× 3
round +0.72 235 2058 8.8× 17
insects +0.72 618 4515 7.3× 8
Flora +0.71 3305 9004 2.7× 2
extremity +0.71 2219 6573 3.0× 3
telescope +0.71 612 3769 6.2× 6
Hole +0.70 3568 9668 2.7× 2
stupendous +0.70 3607 9782 2.7× 2
motion +0.70 241 1754 7.3× 16
barometer +0.70 3457 9387 2.7× 2