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unixpickle/word_stats.py

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word_stats.py
letters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
with open('/usr/share/dict/words', 'rt') as in_file:
words = [x.strip() for x in in_file.readlines()]
counts = {}
starts = {}
total = 0
for letter in letters:
counts[letter] = len([x for x in words if x.endswith(letter)])
starts[letter] = len([x for x in words if x.startswith(letter)])
total += counts[letter]
pairs = sorted(counts.items(), key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)
for letter, count in pairs:
print('%s: %.5f (ratio: %.5f)' % (letter, count / total, count / starts[letter]))
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