Word tokens

Register-neutral words

Words whose frequency barely moves between corpora — as common in cookbooks as in scripture or science writing. The complement of the corpus vocabulary page.

Ranked by the standard deviation of a word's Zipf value across all 19 corpora. Spread is the plain-language version: the gap between the corpus that uses the word least and the one that uses it most, in Zipf — 0.30 means the extremes differ by a factor of two.
Steadiest across corpora 18 shown
Word Std. dev. Spread Mean Zipf Least in Most in Corpora
raised 0.208 0.76 4.99 wiki_physical_science 4.54 wpa_life_histories 5.30 19
meet 0.223 0.70 4.95 wiki_physical_science 4.54 20th_books 5.25 19
nine 0.231 0.75 4.83 eu_parliament_debates 4.47 wpa_life_histories 5.23 19
opening 0.246 0.95 4.80 wiki_math 4.37 wiki_arts 5.32 19
fashion 0.247 1.03 4.63 eu_parliament_debates 4.33 wiki_arts 5.36 19
easy 0.247 0.80 4.86 wiki_geography 4.41 20th_books 5.21 19
fifth 0.252 0.92 4.59 legal_scotus 4.11 wiki_arts 5.03 19
selected 0.264 0.82 4.57 19th_books 4.09 wiki_math 4.91 19
success 0.273 0.93 4.91 legal_scotus 4.51 wiki_arts 5.44 19
running 0.274 0.81 4.85 cooking 4.52 wiki_modern_life 5.33 19
receive 0.297 1.09 4.83 wpa_life_histories 4.34 religious_translated 5.43 19
speaking 0.333 1.46 4.93 openstax_science 4.36 wiki_linguistics 5.82 19
intended 0.334 1.26 4.84 wpa_life_histories 4.30 legal_scotus 5.56 19
looking 0.380 1.31 4.93 wiki_linguistics 4.47 19th_books 5.77 19
turned 0.392 1.35 5.00 eu_parliament_debates 4.49 20th_books 5.84 19
going 0.424 1.46 5.11 wiki_biology 4.55 20th_books 6.01 19
pieces 0.493 2.16 4.81 legal_scotus 3.93 cooking 6.09 19
text 0.498 1.69 5.02 19th_books 4.01 wiki_arts 5.70 19