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Sense & idiom frequencies

Understanding how often particular meanings and expressions occur, to inform what a learner studies next.

The frequency of a word is only a starting point. Common spellings can have rare meanings, and useful expressions may contain several words. Learning priorities need to account for those distinctions.

Glite Dictionary frequency breakdown for albeit across TV, social media, reading and talking.
The dictionary frequency display for “albeit”, with estimates by source.

A concept extractor gives us a way to count occurrences of particular senses and expressions in learning materials. Combined with the Knowledge Prediction model, those counts can help identify concepts that are both useful to a learner and not yet known.

This is a research direction within our concept-extraction and knowledge-graph work. The linked article explains the applications; it is not a separate frequency-dataset release.