As suggested by the title, I was wondering whether is there any way to find out if a word is used often, I remember in one of the post that I have read, they say that you can google the word, and see for the amount of entries of the word to determine whether a word is most used. I think I might be s…

This video I made might be useful to you. [image] How to use the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (video) Resources If you’ve heard people mention it, but weren’t sure how to find it or use it, hopefully this video can be of use to you. If you have no ide…

I might be revealing my own ignorance here, but… With regards to the Google search thing: I just put in the word, and look at the hits. As a random (imperfect) example: 走る - to run [Capture] On jisho, 迯げる is listed as an outdated kanji for “to escape”/“to run away.” [Capture] 136 million hit…

There’s also Yomichan . You can use it to get definitions on the spot (hover over words pressing shift). Having the Innocent Corpus there (a free frequency list that you can use with Yomichan) allows you to see a number that will give you a relative frequency. Higher the number (specially above 10K),…

I’m sorry for nitpicking, but I think a comparison between 迯げる and 逃げる would be more fair, as the meanings are closer/the same. This of course leads to exactly the same conclusion, I don’t disagree with the method at all. @op: you’re not stupid

[image] yorbon: I’m sorry for nitpicking, but I think a comparison between 迯げる and 逃げる would be more fair, as the meanings are closer/the same. Fair, and why I specifically marked it as an imperfect example. ^^ I was (lazily) trying to show my point in differences of hits, rather than find a …

Sorry, completely read over (imperfect)!

No worries! Always good to point out if you think someone is confusing meanings, or has a wrong idea of nuance.

Kind of off topic but I recall coming across a website where if you type in the Japanese word it would bring up the most frequently used words/particles that come after that word but I can’t for the life of me remember what it’s called. Something like if you type 気 it’s bring up "になる” or “をつけて” etc. …

This is what I do as well. I’d only add that I’ve tested it on some common words and the most I ever got is about 100k (I think I maybe even read somewhere that the Yomichan’s dictionary was made by scanning 100k books, but not sure). So I count 1k as 1% of the books contain the word/kanji. 2k hits …

Maybe this is the website you’re looking for?

Wondering how to know whether a word is used often

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Leebo March 8, 2019, 9:36am 2

This video I made might be useful to you.

Using this site for this kind of thing.

https://pj.ninjal.ac.jp/corpus_center/bccwj/en/

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