ジップの法ほう則そく

expression, noun

Zipf's law

A statistical principle in linguistics and mathematics stating that the frequency of a word is inversely proportional to its rank in a frequency table.

• ジップの法ほう則そくによれば、最もっとも頻ひん繁ぱんに使つかわれる単たん語ごは二に番ばん目めに頻ひん繁ぱんな単たん語ごの約やく二に倍ばい使つかわれる。

  According to Zipf's law, the most frequent word is used about twice as often as the second most frequent word.