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Word Frequency
The following table shows the frequency of
spoken
words longer than three letters in the play. These numbers should not be considered authoritative.
that:
306
with:
202
what:
182
this:
168
have:
152
will:
148
thou:
147
shall:
126
your:
125
lord:
113
hector:
102
come:
93
than:
92
there:
92
thee:
90
i'll:
84
troilus:
83
good:
80
from:
78
more:
78
here:
78
achilles:
77
would:
75
they:
75
when:
68
love:
67
then:
64
great:
63
like:
62
hath:
60
well:
60
troy:
58
their:
56
tell:
56
sweet:
55
were:
54
ajax:
53
must:
53
such:
50
should:
49
fair:
48
upon:
48
know:
48
give:
48
them:
43
which:
43
make:
39
speak:
39
heart:
39
much:
38
doth:
35
most:
34
true:
33
where:
32
eyes:
32
paris:
32
take:
31
cressid:
30
diomed:
30
these:
30
night:
30
think:
29
trojan:
28
blood:
28
hand:
28
look:
27
helen:
27
lady:
27
stand:
27
himself:
27
patroclus:
26
honour:
26
fool:
26
call:
26
morrow:
26
comes:
26
whose:
26
thus:
26
gods:
26
matter:
25
many:
25
fight:
25
agamemnon:
25
better:
24
again:
24
faith:
24
time:
24
every:
24
thersites:
24
tent:
24
what's:
23
nothing:
23
done:
23
thing:
23
brother:
22
some:
22
queen:
22
hear:
21
bring:
21
greeks:
21
itself:
21
greek:
21
still:
21
general:
21
even:
20
those:
20
welcome:
20
there's:
20
other:
20
field:
20
prince:
20
word:
20
full:
20
very:
20
grecian:
20
hector's:
20
that's:
19
without:
19
aeneas:
19
life:
19
down:
19
truth:
19
leave:
19
cannot:
19
could:
18
both:
18
dear:
18
proud:
18
pride:
18
fear:
18
mine:
18
till:
18
sword:
18
valiant:
17
worth:
17
praise:
17
false:
17
ulysses:
17
hold:
17
peace:
17
death:
16
never:
16
part:
16
strong:
16
pandarus:
16
another:
16
words:
16
kiss:
16
answer:
16
each:
16
bear:
16
soul:
16
before:
16
keep:
15
hark:
15
knows:
15
meet:
15
into:
15
else:
15
brave:
15
makes:
15
cousin:
15
half:
15
thought:
15
nestor:
15
name:
15
head:
15
gone:
14
show:
14
breath:
14
father:
14
o'er:
14
none:
14
pray:
14
reason:
14
nature:
14
farewell:
14
uncle:
14
fall:
14
purpose:
14
lies:
13
deeds:
13
little:
13
yonder:
13
after:
13
voice:
13
heavens:
13
world:
13
made:
13
place:
13
beauty:
13
poor:
13
thoughts:
13
trumpet:
13
though:
13
whom:
12
arms:
12
mind:
12
being:
12
question:
12
play:
12
greece:
12
young:
12
might:
12
between:
12
noble:
12
once:
12
first:
12
we'll:
11
sick:
11
hair:
11
he's:
11
menelaus:
11
princes:
11
niece:
11
earth:
11
cressida:
11
whore:
11
priam:
11
together:
11
said:
11
find:
11
ever:
11
jove:
11
been:
11
antenor:
11
trojans:
10
right:
10
hither:
10
goes:
10
strike:
10
back:
10
beat:
10
less:
10
opinion:
10
therefore:
10
brain:
10
stay:
10
things:
10
does:
10
shame:
10
home:
10
heaven:
10
sleeve:
10
friend:
10
youth:
10
says:
10
desire:
10
through:
10
lose:
10
enough:
10
white:
9
action:
9
away:
9
past:
9
patience:
9
whole:
9
seen:
9
state:
9
behold:
9
beseech:
9
hast:
9
strange:
9
gentle:
9
keeps:
9
bastard:
9
horse:
9
he'll:
9
here's:
9
argument:
9
who's:
9
ears:
9
sense:
9
long:
9
thousand:
9
wind:
9
cause:
9
pardon:
9
tongue:
9
she's:
9
greekish:
9
alas:
9
live:
9
rather:
8
lips:
8
mars:
8
match:
8
wise:
8
sworn:
8
prithee:
8
turn:
8
where's:
8
came:
8
sure:
8
devil:
8
against:
8
break:
8
worthy:
8
holds:
8
walk:
8
tents:
8
fame:
8
you'll:
8
call'd:
8
above:
8
yourself:
8
morning:
8
care:
8
about:
8
prove:
8
helenus:
8
service:
8
loves:
8
dost:
8
indeed:
8
same:
8
hour:
8
looks:
8
draw:
8
chance:
8
spirit:
8
high:
8
calchas:
7
lechery:
7
self:
7
ne'er:
7
cheek:
7
wrong:
7
dare:
7
fortune:
7
under:
7
vows:
7
pretty:
7
music:
7
begin:
7
folly:
7
hurt:
7
loud:
7
plague:
7
priam's:
7
degree:
7
forth:
7
valour:
7
fellow:
7
chin:
7
seek:
7
slain:
7
swear:
7
tears:
7
talk:
7
honey:
7
dead:
7
please:
7
sing:
7
twere:
7
thanks:
7
reasons:
7
command:
7
amen:
7
others:
7
sinews:
7
anon:
7
parts:
7
since:
7
ready:
7
myself:
7
because:
7
wife:
7
courage:
7
sister:
7
envy:
6
virtue:
6
unarm:
6
pass:
6
thyself:
6
man's:
6
grecians:
6
weep:
6
fears:
6
consent:
6
whereof:
6
bone:
6
master:
6
defend:
6
next:
6
company:
6
themselves:
6
needs:
6
wars:
6
loved:
6
soft:
6
straight:
6
pleasure:
6
hecuba:
6
battle:
6
is't:
6
king:
6
sound:
6
swift:
6
quarrel:
6
angry:
6
twixt:
6
charge:
6
taste:
6
knew:
6
knight:
6
guard:
6
swords:
6
person:
6
power:
6
business:
6
unless:
6
mock:
6
steel:
6
tarry:
6
joint:
6
face:
6
large:
6
force:
6
work:
6
three:
6
among:
6
shalt:
6
cries:
6
free:
6
rich:
6
glory:
6
merit:
6
judgment:
6
kill:
6
body:
6
lost:
6
within:
6
goodly:
6
believe:
6
laughed:
6
while:
6
present:
6
seem:
6
greatness:
6
haste:
5
proof:
5
jupiter:
5
already:
5
sleep:
5
birth:
5
something:
5
hope:
5
sport:
5
ours:
5
fire:
5
fast:
5
alone:
5
to't:
5
soon:
5
particular:
5
strength:
5
woman:
5
kind:
5
takes:
5
stands:
5
grown:
5
went:
5
daughter:
5
armed:
5
fate:
5
venus:
5
twain:
5
deliver:
5
quoth:
5
view:
5
guide:
5
applause:
5
early:
5
form:
5
cupid:
5
walls:
5
virtues:
5
cuckold:
5
hard:
5
best:
5
wouldst:
5
catch:
5
wherefore:
5
curse:
5
mean:
5
gives:
5
bade:
5
excuse:
5
told:
5
hide:
5
known:
5
grace:
5
agamemnon's:
5
crowns:
5
fairly:
5
embrace:
5
mercy:
5
policy:
5
heat:
5
rank:
5
sooner:
5
blow:
5
cold:
5
forbid:
5
wound:
5
puts:
5
helm:
5
rest:
5
forgot:
5
gallant:
5
wounds:
5
discourse:
5
deep:
5
sons:
5
sent:
5
canst:
5
mistress:
5
twas:
5
coward:
5
fools:
5
women:
5
ilion:
5
wear:
5
knees:
5
whoreson:
5
rude:
5
challenge:
5
fashion:
5
hence:
5
conduct:
5
host:
5
wilt:
5
wings:
5
kings:
5
instance:
5
learn:
5
praised:
5
mark:
5
loss:
5
brown:
5
drop:
5
oath:
4
fairer:
4
proclamation:
4
hairs:
4
bids:
4
fresh:
4
yours:
4
danger:
4
offend:
4
ourselves:
4
gall:
4
ta'en:
4
enter:
4
infinite:
4
higher:
4
foot:
4
touch'd:
4
deadly:
4
yesterday:
4
pandar:
4
slave:
4
throw:
4
love's:
4
patient:
4
wherein:
4
neck:
4
just:
4
follow:
4
opposed:
4
send:
4
scurvy:
4
drawing:
4
ilium:
4
meets:
4
stop:
4
horn:
4
neither:
4
only:
4
gates:
4
means:
4
scorn:
4
making:
4
stays:
4
feast:
4
almost:
4
rogue:
4
palm:
4
token:
4
traitor:
4
glove:
4
follows:
4
tame:
4
pursue:
4
request:
4
favour:
4
mere:
4
cunning:
4
lion:
4
regard:
4
remember:
4
praises:
4
shape:
4
smiles:
4
glorious:
4
days:
4
theme:
4
safe:
4
ignorance:
4
spent:
4
effect:
4
moved:
4
help:
4
serve:
4
mighty:
4
wanton:
4
confess:
4
sore:
4
thank:
4
note:
4
lords:
4
passion:
4
grief:
4
need:
4
speaking:
4
let's:
4
marry:
4
open:
4
spirits:
4
thence:
4
meddle:
4
subject:
4
adieu:
4
unarm'd:
4
mass:
4
crack:
4
entreat:
4
foolish:
4
emulation:
4
hands:
4
bones:
4
helen's:
4
letter:
4
commend:
4
minds:
4
wisdom:
4
arm'd:
4
weight:
4
smile:
4
grow:
4
speech:
4
borne:
4
light:
4
firm:
4
quite:
4
tarried:
4
cassandra:
4
dreadful:
4
appetite:
4
bright:
4
fault:
4
born:
4
friends:
4
speaks:
4
aught:
4
vengeance:
4
troth:
4
emulous:
4
yond:
4
pale:
4
bull:
4
surety:
4
marvel:
4
base:
4
change:
4
performance:
4
found:
4
sort:
4
vice:
4
enemy:
4
commands:
4
villain:
4
either:
4
eats:
4
short:
4
carry:
4
door:
4
courtesy:
4
sides:
4
success:
4
truce:
4
issue:
3
trust:
3
going:
3
trouble:
3
crown:
3
divine:
3
obey:
3
dwells:
3
knots:
3
precious:
3
stirring:
3
saying:
3
fold:
3
strangeness:
3
green:
3
wonder:
3
port:
3
sight:
3
bleed:
3
lest:
3
they'll:
3
ache:
3
withal:
3
bottom:
3
plain:
3
rouse:
3
late:
3
save:
3
appear:
3
scarce:
3
tail:
3
verse:
3
affected:
3
near:
3
perchance:
3
apollo:
3
talking:
3
mocking:
3
commends:
3
bloody:
3
knights:
3
she'll:
3
understand:
3
tempt:
3
cost:
3
gave:
3
inches:
3
move:
3
palate:
3
fever:
3
piece:
3
tide:
3
resides:
3
order:
3
prize:
3
they're:
3
labour:
3
herself:
3
centre:
3
infancy:
3
stubborn:
3
wide:
3
finger:
3
calls:
3
madness:
3
sake:
3
monster:
3
retire:
3
footing:
3
servant:
3
blind:
3
voluntary:
3
heard:
3
another's:
3
last:
3
cheeks:
3
sooth:
3
world's:
3
shouldst:
3
respect:
3
gifts:
3
glass:
3
souls:
3
draws:
3
struck:
3
laughing:
3
merry:
3
salt:
3
elephant:
3
varlet:
3
sigh:
3
course:
3
prophet:
3
arming:
3
broken:
3
fill:
3
choice:
3
office:
3
news:
3
sharp:
3
devils:
3
roused:
3
phrygian:
3
craft:
3
esteem:
3
complexion:
3
bite:
3
figure:
3
priest:
3
hall:
3
terms:
3
ominous:
3
bias:
3
presume:
3
heels:
3
having:
3
aloud:
3
anger:
3
receive:
3
sacrifice:
3
depend:
3
greater:
3
faction:
3
dangerous:
3
evil:
3
edge:
3
falling:
3
chamber:
3
livers:
3
chivalry:
3
flies:
3
dirt:
3
grant:
3
ample:
3
powers:
3
whilst:
3
march:
3
fortune's:
3
harm:
3
rail:
3
planets:
3
kissing:
3
burns:
3
cruel:
3
thinks:
3
tied:
3
tutor:
3
beard:
3
certain:
3
holy:
3
fine:
3
blush:
3
renew:
3
watch:
3
thetis:
3
hell:
3
rage:
3
house:
3
e'er:
3
although:
3
comparison:
3
girl:
3
humbly:
3
aunt:
3
gilt:
3
hate:
3
execution:
3
truer:
3
oblivion:
3
subtle:
3
weak:
3
digestion:
3
excellent:
3
soldier:
3
thrice:
3
invite:
3
addition:
3
greet:
3
desires:
3
twould:
3
mouth:
3
oracle:
3
crows:
3
fetch:
3
strain:
3
become:
3
took:
3
awake:
3
hollow:
3
tend:
3
feel:
3
legs:
3
water:
3
moderate:
3
mongst:
3
second:
3
bound:
3
sell:
3
silence:
3
wish:
3
promise:
3
combat:
3
fare:
3
lovers:
3
execute:
3
melancholy:
3
doubt:
3
brief:
3
worst:
3
witness:
3
thine:
3
rule:
3
falsehood:
3
joints:
3
warrant:
3
numbers:
3
moral:
3
thither:
3
myrmidons:
3
often:
3
andromache:
3
grows:
3
deiphobus:
3
mothers:
3
given:
3
feed:
3
fail:
3
grieve:
3
stale:
3
single:
3
advantage:
3
bent:
3
sets:
3
backward:
3
touch:
3
brother's:
3
mother:
3
other's:
3
woman's:
3
spur:
3
familiar:
3
small:
3
divide:
3
sparrow:
3
clear:
3
pause:
3
turns:
3
read:
3
heavy:
3
common:
3
health:
3
bitter:
3
famed:
3
shores:
3
core:
3
amorous:
3
drab:
3
town:
3
designs:
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twill:
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stomach:
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merits:
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brought:
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along:
3
kisses:
3
cressid's:
3
shake:
3
dainty:
3
fountain:
3
times:
3
deed:
3
answers:
3
greeting:
2
richer:
2
calm:
2
taken:
2
wild:
2
merchant:
2
address:
2
crest:
2
share:
2
courtiers:
2
conduce:
2
rudeness:
2
lift:
2
conditions:
2
sink:
2
dardan:
2
fish:
2
procure:
2
sympathize:
2
wears:
2
stone:
2
warlike:
2
hedge:
2
cares:
2
travail:
2
clamours:
2
deal:
2
pearl:
2
table:
2
burden:
2
horns:
2
country:
2
torch:
2
chronicle:
2
boils:
2
leavening:
2
evasion:
2
gentleman:
2
cities:
2
unworthy:
2
male:
2
shut:
2
massy:
2
speed:
2
dangers:
2
stretch'd:
2
skittish:
2
object:
2
scorns:
2
doing:
2
attest:
2
medicinable:
2
boats:
2
dish:
2
mate:
2
thunder:
2
behind:
2
occasion:
2
drowsy:
2
you'ld:
2
stuff:
2
loving:
2
petition:
2
mental:
2
godly:
2
ungain'd:
2
husband:
2
poised:
2
countenance:
2
bonds:
2
heroical:
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