##  [Rank–Frequency Distribution](/index.php/rank-frequency-distribution) 

  ##  [Rank–Frequency Distribution](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/rank-frequency-distribution-0) 

  

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**Humanities & Arts Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

A representation that orders lexical items by decreasing observed frequency and maps each rank r to the corresponding frequency f(r); it summarises how token occurrences are apportioned across distinct types in a text or corpus.