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Zechner, Niklas (2025). Flex (updated: 2025-12-06). [Data set]. Språkbanken Text.
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The Swedish frequency lexicon Flex lists for each word the frequency (per million words) in three text types: novels, newspapers and web forums.

Which are the most frequent words in Swedish? This is one of the most common questions sent to Språkbanken. But what is the most common word depends on context! For this reason, we have created Flex, a frequency lexicon which lists the frequencies in three different types of text: novels, newspapers and web forums. The frequency is given in occurrences per million words.

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flex.json.zip
JSON file as used by Karp. (JSON)
36.31 MB 2025-12-08 CC-BY-4.0
flex.csv.zip
Table file with words, novel freq, newspaper freq, forum freq. (CSV)
33.07 MB 2025-12-08 CC-BY-4.0

Type

  • Lexicon

Language

Swedish

Size

Entries: 4,446,456

Creators

  • Zechner, Niklas

Created

2025-12-06

Updated

2025-12-06

Contact

sb-info@svenska.gu.se