Ukrainian Frequency

Ukrainian has almost no serious digital tooling for learners. So I started building it. Thread one is a lemma-based frequency list: 12,000 lemmas ranked over 1.5 billion word tokens, with coverage curves that show exactly how slowly reading comprehension accrues in a heavily inflected language. Published as versioned CSV, JSON, and an Anki deck. CC-BY, open for anyone to build on. https://www.jakelawrence.xyz/research/ukrainian-frequency

Heavy inflection means coverage accrues slowly. Ukrainian has almost no learner tooling that accounts for this. So I built a lemma-based frequency list: 12,000 lemmas, ranked over 1.5 billion tokens, with the coverage curves to prove it.

Versioned CSV, JSON, and an Anki deck. CC-BY. jakelawrence.xyz/research/ukrainian-frequency

Ukrainian has almost no serious digital tooling for learners. Thread one of an open effort to fix that: a lemma-based frequency list, 12,000 lemmas ranked over 1.5 billion word tokens. The coverage curves are the interesting part. They make visible exactly how slowly reading comprehension builds in a heavily inflected language. Out as versioned CSV, JSON, and an Anki deck. CC-BY.

Ukrainian has almost no serious digital tooling for learners. I started building it. Thread one is a lemma-based frequency list: 12,000 lemmas ranked over 1.5 billion word tokens. The most non-obvious output isn't the list itself, it's the coverage curves. They show empirically how slowly reading comprehension accrues when a language inflects as heavily as Ukrainian does. That's the kind of thing a learner needs to know before they build a study plan. Published as versioned, hashed CSV and JSON, plus an Anki deck. CC-BY, open for anyone to build on. https://www.jakelawrence.xyz/research/ukrainian-frequency

Coverage curves for Ukrainian show the hard truth: heavy inflection means the vocabulary climb is steeper than most learners expect. Built a 12,000-lemma frequency list over 1.5B tokens to make that concrete.

Versioned CSV, JSON, Anki deck. CC-BY. jakelawrence.xyz/research/ukrainian-frequency

The vocabulary climb in Ukrainian is steeper than most learners expect. Heavy inflection is why. A 12,000-lemma frequency list over 1.5B tokens, with coverage curves that make it empirically visible. CC-BY, versioned CSV, JSON, and Anki deck. jakelawrence.xyz/research/ukrainian-frequency