Swedish Letter Frequencies
All text files provided are encoded in utf-8. The frequencies from this page are generated from about 90 Million characters of Swedish text, sourced from Wortschatz. The text files containing the counts can be used with ngram_score.py and used for breaking ciphers, see this page for details, just substitute out the English ngram file for the one you want. If you want to compute the letter frequencies of your own piece of text you can use this page.
Monogram Frequencies §
Swedish single letter frequencies are as follows (in percent %):
A : 9.38 K : 3.14 U : 1.92 B : 1.54 L : 5.28 V : 2.42 C : 1.49 M : 3.47 W : 0.14 D : 4.70 N : 8.54 X : 0.16 E : 10.15 O : 4.48 Y : 0.71 F : 2.03 P : 1.84 Z : 0.07 G : 2.86 Q : 0.02 Å : 1.34 H : 2.09 R : 8.43 Ä : 1.80 I : 5.82 S : 6.59 Ö : 1.31 J : 0.61 T : 7.69
The swedish_monograms.txt file provides the counts used to generate the frequencies above:
Common Swedish Words §
The following table shows the 30 most common swedish words. The percentages represent how often the word occurs, e.g. OCH represents around 3.45% of all words in Swedish text.
I : 3.55 MED : 1.25 UNDER : 0.42 OCH : 3.45 FÖR : 1.08 VID : 0.38 EN : 2.13 DET : 0.93 MEN : 0.36 AV : 2.03 ETT : 0.83 SIG : 0.35 SOM : 1.95 DE : 0.80 MAN : 0.33 ÄR : 1.79 HAN : 0.77 ÄVEN : 0.33 ATT : 1.45 VAR : 0.73 INTE : 0.33 PÅ : 1.36 HAR : 0.69 ÅR : 0.32 DEN : 1.32 FRÅN : 0.60 ELLER : 0.30 TILL : 1.27 OM : 0.43 EFTER : 0.30
The file below has the counts for all the words used to generate the percentages above. These words come from a 'news' corpus, so the words may be skewed to this topic. You can use the word list here to rank text with Word Statistics as a Fitness Measure.
Bigram Frequencies §
We can't list all of the bigram frequencies here, the top 30 are the following (in percent %):
EN : 2.44 RE : 1.10 OM : 0.88 DE : 2.11 ND : 1.07 RI : 0.86 ER : 2.10 TA : 1.03 NG : 0.82 AN : 1.75 TI : 1.01 SK : 0.80 AR : 1.61 NA : 0.98 KA : 0.80 ET : 1.27 NS : 0.97 OC : 0.78 ST : 1.27 TT : 0.97 ME : 0.77 IN : 1.22 LL : 0.94 CH : 0.75 RA : 1.21 AT : 0.91 EL : 0.73 TE : 1.18 LA : 0.88 ÖR : 0.73
The swedish_bigrams.txt file provides the counts used to generate the frequencies above:
Trigram Frequencies §
We can't list all of the trigram frequencies here, the top 30 are the following (in percent %):
OCH : 0.65 ILL : 0.38 DES : 0.30 FÖR : 0.55 ATT : 0.37 DER : 0.29 DEN : 0.48 TIL : 0.34 GEN : 0.29 NDE : 0.47 DET : 0.33 NIN : 0.28 AND : 0.47 ERA : 0.33 REN : 0.27 ADE : 0.46 ARE : 0.33 ANS : 0.26 TER : 0.45 SKA : 0.32 ETT : 0.25 ING : 0.44 STA : 0.31 HAN : 0.25 SOM : 0.41 MED : 0.30 LAN : 0.25 ENS : 0.38 VAR : 0.30 ERS : 0.25
The swedish_trigrams.txt file provides the counts used to generate the frequencies above:
Quadgram Frequencies §
We can't list all of the quadgram frequencies here, the top 30 are the following (in percent %):
TILL : 0.33 NGEN : 0.12 ENSK : 0.09 NING : 0.23 FRÅN : 0.12 ERAD : 0.09 ANDE : 0.19 NOCH : 0.12 FTER : 0.09 LAND : 0.16 INGE : 0.11 NFÖR : 0.09 NDER : 0.15 RADE : 0.10 INGA : 0.09 ADES : 0.13 ROCH : 0.10 ÄREN : 0.09 FÖRS : 0.13 ISKA : 0.10 INTE : 0.09 UNDE : 0.13 NSKA : 0.10 EFTE : 0.09 ERNA : 0.13 LLER : 0.10 STER : 0.08 TION : 0.12 RATT : 0.10 STOR : 0.08
The swedish_quadgrams.txt file provides the counts used to generate the frequencies above:
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