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English Word lengths
Jenny Bryan
27 noviembre, 2018
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On most *nix systems, the file /usr/share/dict/words contains a bunch of words. On my machine, it contains 235970 words.

I computed the length of each word, i.e. the number of characters, and tabulated how many words consist of 1 character, 2 characters, etc.

The most frequent word length is 9.

Here is a histogram of word lengths.

Fig. 1 A histogram of English word lengths