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 +1.45 385 7214 18.7× 4
Salt +1.26 836 7766 9.3× 4
chalk +1.13 1254 7928 6.3× 4
sun +1.13 125 2505 20.0× 16
Fire +1.12 506 5151 10.2× 8
sulphur +1.10 1558 8951 5.7× 2
earth +1.06 122 2205 18.1× 15
remarkable +1.05 361 3628 10.0× 11
peculiar +1.04 310 2993 9.7× 6
species +1.02 82 1750 21.3× 15
feet +1.01 145 2146 14.8× 17
earth's +1.00 768 5649 7.4× 3
comparatively +1.00 1165 6388 5.5× 5
miles +0.98 177 2460 13.9× 10
experiment +0.97 296 3447 11.6× 12
ascertained +0.96 1729 7912 4.6× 3
curious +0.95 496 4137 8.3× 5
divers +0.94 983 5708 5.8× 3
probable +0.94 680 4076 6.0× 5
patient +0.91 352 2883 8.2× 11
candle +0.91 368 3114 8.5× 4
planet +0.91 326 3644 11.2× 8
inches +0.90 408 3570 8.8× 11
experiments +0.90 359 3597 10.0× 13
revolving +0.89 2271 8706 3.8× 3
quantity +0.89 292 2953 10.1× 15
fig +0.89 948 5442 5.7× 5
stars +0.88 152 1948 12.8× 12
globe +0.88 639 4396 6.9× 5
effected +0.88 1433 6337 4.4× 5
islands +0.88 348 3379 9.7× 12
phenomena +0.88 444 3932 8.9× 11
spark +0.87 1220 5192 4.3× 3
bodies +0.86 184 1803 9.8× 16
suns +0.86 2519 9084 3.6× 2
chiefly +0.86 1128 5216 4.6× 8
moon +0.85 301 2829 9.4× 12
cleanliness +0.85 2775 9292 3.3× 2
birds +0.85 223 2290 10.3× 15
distance +0.85 151 1805 12.0× 17
Nature +0.85 357 2864 8.0× 9
we +0.85 27 605 22.4× 17
apparatus +0.85 596 3972 6.7× 6
compounded +0.85 1447 6719 4.6× 3
contiguous +0.84 2452 8537 3.5× 2
acid +0.84 140 2629 18.8× 8
heat +0.84 167 2166 13.0× 16
violet +0.83 685 4325 6.3× 6
distant +0.82 468 3461 7.4× 15
our +0.82 62 1118 18.0× 17
improbable +0.82 2656 8640 3.3× 4
substance +0.81 303 2570 8.5× 14
retort +0.81 2254 7499 3.3× 2
favourable +0.81 1592 6170 3.9× 4
I +0.81 15 254 16.9× 17
upon +0.80 58 503 8.7× 17
observations +0.80 406 3367 8.3× 12
lime +0.80 651 3641 5.6× 6
striking +0.79 725 3995 5.5× 11
beam +0.79 624 3888 6.2× 8
jar +0.78 633 4167 6.6× 4
wick +0.78 2821 8765 3.1× 2
disengaged +0.78 2297 7495 3.3× 2
great +0.78 60 497 8.3× 17
seems +0.78 195 1660 8.5× 17
electricity +0.77 453 3119 6.9× 12
air +0.77 94 879 9.4× 17
nurse +0.77 675 3801 5.6× 5
furnace +0.77 1353 5412 4.0× 6
strata +0.77 1142 5153 4.5× 4
colours +0.76 528 3272 6.2× 7
proportion +0.76 457 3030 6.6× 17
flame +0.76 397 2799 7.0× 7
yet +0.76 93 773 8.3× 17
trees +0.76 278 2496 9.0× 17
tides +0.76 1079 5604 5.2× 4
Animal +0.75 2770 8039 2.9× 2
glass +0.75 263 2320 8.8× 14
star +0.75 297 2363 8.0× 14
scarcely +0.75 929 4021 4.3× 6
peculiarities +0.75 2253 7063 3.1× 2
round +0.74 240 2141 8.9× 17
sun's +0.74 1788 5959 3.3× 3
discharge +0.73 750 4069 5.4× 11
distinctly +0.73 1565 5590 3.6× 4
afforded +0.73 1673 5641 3.4× 6
Light +0.73 1039 4786 4.6× 8
contrivance +0.73 3189 9132 2.9× 2
atmosphere +0.73 421 2943 7.0× 12
speculations +0.72 3059 8690 2.8× 3
blue +0.72 346 2397 6.9× 18
sparks +0.72 2962 8346 2.8× 4
supposed +0.72 466 2626 5.6× 13
immense +0.72 1354 5041 3.7× 7
insects +0.72 615 4526 7.4× 8
slight +0.72 842 3584 4.3× 10
you +0.72 55 1021 18.6× 17
surface +0.72 182 1855 10.2× 18
Flora +0.71 3314 9008 2.7× 2
motion +0.71 239 1802 7.5× 16