Macedonian Word Frequency List

Listed below are the five-thousand most frequently used words in the Macedonian language, extracted from a corpus of over eight-million words (21 MB) from approximately 26,000 articles from Sakam da Kazam (January 1991-August 2021). The corpus was created on 15 August 2021 by Troy E. Spier, Ph.D. Dynamically-generated links to the electronic Macedonian-English dictionary from off.net.mk are provided. Please note, however, that it's possible that the dictionary will not contain the entry, as it might refer to an inflected or conjugated form.

The data have been slightly cleaned up by removing non-alphanumeric characters, removing non-Cyrillic words, and lowercasing all words to avoid duplicates. It should also be noted that "words" here does not refer exclusively to distinct lexemes, e.g. the same noun may appear with or without a definite article (e.g. криза and кризата), the same noun may appear in singular and plural form (e.g. година and години), the same verb may appear with different conjugations or TAM indicators (e.g. бев and бевме), etc. Given the size of this frequency list and the genre represented here, proper nouns (e.g. тетово and груевски) and abbreviations (e.g. др and сдсм) are also retained. In total, the words represented here comprise 48.92% of the entire corpus.