Word Frequencies

Absolute and relative frequencies for word forms in the Songkorpus — from ubiquitous function words such as pronouns and articles to rare content words appearing only a handful of times. Available for the full corpus and individual archive views. The table lists the 300 most frequent word forms ranked by occurrence count; use the column headers to re-sort by word form or relative frequency.

Linguistic Insights

Register pressure from the largest archives

The overall frequency list is shaped by whichever archives contribute the most tokens. Hip-hop's register is already visible in the full-corpus top 300: Bruder, Rapper, Bitch, Rap, Jungs. These forms would be absent or marginal in a list restricted to singer-songwriter archives. Switching to an individual archive view reveals how strongly aggregate rankings are driven by the quantitatively dominant sub-corpora.

Code-switching and anglicisation history

English-language tokens appear among the most frequent word forms of the full corpus: yeah, Baby, the, Yeah etc. Their distribution across archives and decades allows a quantitative reconstruction of the anglicisation history of German pop — from isolated anglicisms in Schlager to the structural code-switching practice of Deutschrap, where English and German alternate within a single line.

Word frequencies – Full Corpus (all archives)

Word Form (case-sensitive) Absolute Frequency Relative Frequency
ich128,1670.024846
und97,8370.018967
die91,5340.017745
der64,5760.012519
du62,6320.012142
ist61,9690.012013
nicht58,7780.011395
Ich58,1670.011276
in52,2800.010135
das44,1150.008552
auf43,6570.008463
wie41,9690.008136
ein41,2240.007992
mir38,2970.007424
es38,1480.007395
mich37,6190.007293
mit37,3030.007232
den37,3010.007231
zu35,7560.006932
sie32,2720.006256
so31,5660.006119
Und29,4560.005710
dich27,5550.005342
wir26,9040.005216
im26,3860.005115
bin25,7900.005000
was25,5920.004961
nur25,0310.004852
für24,7030.004789
an23,5910.004573
von23,2540.004508
doch21,9690.004259
dir21,3580.004140
noch20,9920.004069
sind20,9820.004068
wenn20,8230.004037
ja19,8150.003841
Du19,1320.003709
mein18,4060.003568
dem18,3280.003553
aus18,2210.003532
uns15,6070.003026
mehr15,4690.002999
hab15,4420.002994
alles15,0050.002909
sich14,7720.002864
war14,7390.002857
dass14,6740.002845
bist14,3980.002791
immer14,3470.002781
hier13,9780.002710
da13,8730.002689
wieder13,6680.002650
dann13,6040.002637
meine13,3740.002593
will13,0210.002524
auch12,8190.002485
Die12,3990.002404
ihr12,1940.002364
er12,0480.002336
als11,8650.002300
denn11,8140.002290
sein11,7910.002286
Wir11,4840.002226
mal11,4680.002223
schon11,4310.002216
am11,3850.002207
hat11,3830.002207
nach11,1430.002160
kann11,1350.002159
wird10,7180.002078
Sie10,6630.002067
man10,6400.002063
jetzt10,6280.002060
Das10,2860.001994
Es10,0430.001947
nie9,7380.001888
dein9,7120.001883
kein9,4450.001831
deine9,2250.001788
bei9,0810.001760
aber8,9960.001744
um8,9370.001733
Leben8,9350.001732
alle8,9190.001729
viel8,8980.001725
keine8,8310.001712
geht8,8180.001709
weiß8,7470.001696
Zeit8,3290.001615
Doch8,2290.001595
vor8,2190.001593
eine7,9040.001532
Der7,6660.001486
Welt7,6090.001475
bis7,4880.001452
weil7,4790.001450
oder7,4040.001435
Wenn7,2510.001406
zum7,2220.001400
Ja7,1520.001386
yeah7,1120.001379
Tag6,7720.001313
Nacht6,7370.001306
durch6,7170.001302
nichts6,6670.001292
Was6,6390.001287
hast6,6110.001282
macht6,5190.001264
'ne6,3720.001235
mach6,3200.001225
Liebe6,2330.001208
wo6,0640.001176
Mann6,0630.001175
kommt5,9370.001151
ey5,8370.001132
gut5,7990.001124
komm5,7760.001120
euch5,7640.001117
Denn5,6600.001097
ohne5,5530.001076
ab5,5290.001072
muss5,5190.001070
ganz5,5080.001068
haben5,4870.001064
Baby5,2970.001027
gibt5,2910.001026
einen5,2330.001014
Geld4,9630.000962
weg4,7550.000922
Kopf4,6400.000900
ah4,6350.000899
heute4,5820.000888
Herz4,5520.000882
einfach4,4920.000871
lass4,3950.000852
allein4,3820.000849
vom4,3630.000846
Ein4,3570.000845
machen4,3420.000842
meiner4,3050.000835
jeder4,2870.000831
über4,2370.000821
sag4,1950.000813
Alles4,1860.000811
ihn4,1100.000797
meinen4,0040.000776
Wie3,9290.000762
In3,8960.000755
So3,8860.000753
nein3,8580.000748
meinem3,8420.000745
Mein3,8390.000744
wer3,8370.000744
raus3,8320.000743
sagt3,7810.000733
Augen3,7640.000730
Weg3,7600.000729
Er3,7070.000719
Ihr3,7030.000718
werden3,6370.000705
jeden3,6290.000704
sagen3,6270.000703
oh3,6140.000701
diese3,5440.000687
Komm3,5280.000684
paar3,5160.000682
einer3,4850.000676
geh3,4850.000676
'n3,4620.000671
ins3,4470.000668
keiner3,4410.000667
la3,4130.000662
dieser3,3720.000654
willst3,3710.000653
Aber3,3580.000651
egal3,3510.000650
zwei3,2170.000624
Meine3,2120.000623
bleibt3,2030.000621
Stadt3,1800.000616
ein'n3,1740.000615
weißt3,1610.000613
Hand3,1400.000609
Bruder3,1200.000605
the3,0750.000596
einmal3,0720.000596
Ey3,0690.000595
Oh3,0660.000594
vorbei3,0600.000593
wär3,0310.000588
zurück3,0210.000586
ob2,9900.000580
einem2,9530.000572
los2,9070.000564
Mit2,8990.000562
weiter2,8950.000561
Wer2,8860.000559
na2,8730.000557
Auf2,8560.000554
kannst2,8510.000553
'nem2,8480.000552
Gott2,8310.000549
selbst2,8250.000548
gehen2,8130.000545
mei'm2,8050.000544
lang2,7120.000526
ihm2,7060.000525
Jungs2,6990.000523
Sag2,6950.000522
Straße2,6950.000522
Rapper2,6930.000522
all2,6890.000521
bitte2,6710.000518
voll2,6610.000516
weit2,6570.000515
Yeah2,6360.000511
seh2,6310.000510
seh'n2,6300.000510
schön2,6290.000510
Sonne2,6180.000508
geh'n2,6180.000508
rein2,6080.000506
des2,6000.000504
Da2,5950.000503
nix2,5930.000503
deinen2,5840.000501
soll2,5780.000500
Nur2,5740.000499
ne2,5640.000497
gar2,5630.000497
Haus2,5610.000496
Bin2,5580.000496
steht2,5530.000495
viele2,5400.000492
habe2,5300.000490
Leute2,5020.000485
Lass2,5010.000485
niemals2,4900.000483
zur2,4860.000482
Bitch2,4680.000478
mein'n2,4610.000477
Alle2,4590.000477
keinen2,4360.000472
Ende2,4080.000467
Dann2,3930.000464
bleib2,3770.000461
Für2,3750.000460
is2,3750.000460
besser2,3740.000460
ganze2,3590.000457
Mama2,3560.000457
unter2,3480.000455
Rap2,3280.000451
glaub2,3180.000449
Glück2,3130.000448
Hab2,3030.000446
Frau2,2890.000444
Angst2,2700.000440
deiner2,2450.000435
Menschen2,2430.000435
hoch2,2160.000430
Mal2,2140.000429
Himmel2,2110.000429
Deine2,2000.000426
klar2,1970.000426
Scheiß2,1870.000424
bisschen2,1820.000423
sehr2,1790.000422
Nein2,1670.000420
gib2,1670.000420
heut2,1590.000419
Jetzt2,1500.000417
fick2,1460.000416
lange2,1420.000415
ihre2,1340.000414
sehen2,1260.000412
seit2,1250.000412
tun2,1000.000407
Immer2,0850.000404
hin2,0810.000403
dabei2,0800.000403
wollen2,0790.000403
Junge2,0670.000401
warum2,0480.000397
Im2,0380.000395
wirklich2,0380.000395
Ah2,0340.000394
seid2,0330.000394
Wo2,0180.000391
Ist2,0140.000390
Warum2,0100.000390
Gesicht2,0020.000388
Keine1,9980.000387
machst1,9980.000387
wirst1,9960.000387
tut1,9950.000387
drauf1,9920.000386
siehst1,9880.000385
her1,9830.000384

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These analyses are based on corpus data as of July 29, 2026.