THE WORD BAROMETER 01
Almost a quarter of all occurrences have two letters.
In the public CoRoLa frequency list, 908 distinct two-letter forms account for 150,476,505 occurrences out of 637,764,339.
Measure the air in your own sentenceShort forms carry the sentence.
Forms with six letters or fewer make up 349,975 of 1,813,746 distinct forms. Across the counted occurrences, those same forms reach 362,222,723 of 637,764,339.
The same limit: six letters or fewer.
Write a sentence and let its rhythm show.
Each word receives a height equal to its number of letters. The ochre line marks six letters, the threshold at which short forms pass half of all occurrences.
The strip uses one measure: the number of letters in each word.
Write with diacritics, punctuation, and whatever rhythm arrives.
Your sentence has 7 words and an average of 4.7 letters per word. 6 of them have six letters or fewer.
By six letters, the air is already full.
The bars follow occurrences, not the number of forms. Every percentage is calculated from the 637,764,339 occurrences in the CoRoLa list.
What does “occurrence” mean here?
An occurrence is one appearance of a form in the counted texts. The list keeps the exact lowercase form with diacritics; “de”, “despre”, and “deși” are three different forms.
CoRoLa brings together spoken and written texts from different periods, fields, and registers. The result describes this published selection and keeps its limits visible.