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Frequent words in Spanish news articles

The table below gives a list of the 200 most frequently occuring Spanish base words in a sample of contemporary news and magazine articles. Figures in brackets indicate that the figure in question is probably inaccurate by more than 5%; other figures are believed to be accurate to within at least 95%. (This accuracy is related to the accuracy of the underlying automatic part-of-speech tagger, which will be improved over time.)

For example, the word la has its figure in brackets because the tagger can't determine with 95% accuracy whether the given instance of the word la is a "determiner" or "pronoun"¹. Of course, in some cases this distinction is arbitrary anyway.