100 Wri 5 every 16 words on a page. Take any book, or magazine, and list all the words appears about 3.2 in order of frequency. You will find an interesting pattern. Of-the second most common word percent of the time. That's one-half (1/2) of the frequency 10 of the. And, the third most common word, makes up around 2.2 percent of words. That's around one-third (1/3) of the frequency of the. Do you see the pattern? The number of times each word appears is linked to its position in the list. For example, the eighteenth most frequent word, as, appears 15 one-eighteenth (1/18) as often as the word the. That's around 0.4 percent of the words in any book. - C on frequenc the be ~と