frequency

Prepends the approximate frequency of a word in English text, measured in occurrences per billion words.

Usage

frequency [position]

• position — which space-separated token to look up (default: 0).

Example

$ cat words.txt | frequency | order -r | pluck 1 | head -n 1000

This finds the 1,000 most common words: prepend each word’s frequency, sort by frequency in reverse (most frequent first), then pull just the word back out with pluck.