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Step-by-step guide to WordSmith

Navigation: WordList

Making a Word List

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To make a word list, first press the WordList button in the main Controller.        

 

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When WordList starts up, choose your texts and then you will see something like this.        

 

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Here we're going to make one simple word-list based on 2 text files (the plays Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet), so press Make a word list now.        

 

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The WordList tool shows us a frequency listing. The most frequent words are THE, AND, TO, etc.. Beside each one you can see how frequent it is in the collection of 2 texts we used, the percentage of running words, and how many of our 2 texts each word occurred in.

 

To see the words in alphabetical order instead, click the alphabetical tab near the bottom of the window.        

 

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Now scroll down to wherefore. There are 8 cases of this word, that is 0.01% of the running words of the two plays; it is present in both plays, not just one.