For linguists and many other scientists, analyzing the frequency of the words appearing in a text is an great tool. Some commercial text editors and some websites provide this tool.
The word frequency analysis, sort the words in decreasing order with respect to their frequency. For example in this text
Emacs Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for those using, extending, or developing the emacs text editor. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about emacs.
we have:
56 words
9: punctuation marks
3: ,
3: .
3: a
3: emacs
3: of
2: '
2: and
2: exchange
2: question
2: stack
2: the
2: to
1: &
1: about
1: answer
1: answers
1: as
1: build
1: built
1: by
1: detailed
1: developing
1: editor
1: every
1: extending
1: for
1: help
1: is
1: it
1: library
1: network
1: or
1: part
1: q
1: re
1: run
1: s
1: site
1: sites
1: text
1: those
1: together
1: using
1: we
1: with
1: working
1: you
1: your
I am wondering if there exists already a package which can be used to provide such statistics.
PS I have already asked different question in the same esprit and an excellent answer was provided (I wish to upvote it more if I could).