TACTweb Queries: FREQ Selection

Use the FREQ selection operator when you want to select words based on frequency of occurrence. When used as a source (e.g. "FREQ 5"), FREQ selects words based on their frequency in the entire text. When used as a refinement (e.g. "l.* ; FREQ 5", words are selected according to their number of occurrences in the given list.

You give numbers to use as criteria for frequency selection. The forms are:

• You can give a single number, or number range: "FREQ 5" or "FREQ 5:8".
• You can use the "<", "<=", ">", or ">=" operators: "FREQ <= 6".
• If you enclose the specification in parentheses, you can specify more than one condition, separating each by a comma: "FREQ (< 10, > 100)", "FREQ (10:12, 50:58)".

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