WordCounts
WordCounts["string"]
gives an association whose keys are the distinct words identified in string, and whose values give the number of times those words appear in string.
WordCounts["string",n]
gives counts of the distinct n-grams consisting of runs of n words in string.
Details and Options

- WordCounts[string,…] identifies words in string in the same way as TextWords.
- In WordCounts[string,n], words that are considered part of an n-gram must appear consecutively in string, not separated by nonword characters other than whitespace.
- WordCounts has the option IgnoreCase. With the setting IgnoreCase->True, letters are in effect all converted to lower case before being counted.
Examples
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Find the number of times the main characters Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are mentioned in some novels of Arthur Conan Doyle:
Retrieve Miguel Cervantes's novel Don Quixote from ExampleData to test the empirical Zipf law:
Generate the frequency table of all words in this text:
Zipf's law asserts that the frequency of a word versus its rank in the frequency table follows approximately a linear relation in a log-log scale. Test this statement on the first 1,000 most frequent words:
The result is close to . Visualize the fit together with the actual data:
Text
Wolfram Research (2015), WordCounts, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WordCounts.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2015. "WordCounts." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WordCounts.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2015). WordCounts. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WordCounts.html