Catalan-English dictionary now has word frequency bands

As of this week, the Catalan-English dictionary has a new feature. In an attempt to provide Catalan learners with information about Catalan word frequencies (i.e. which words are really frequently used in Catalan and which are used about as often as 'whence' or 'thither' in English), each Catalan word was entered into Google Catalan along with their principal forms (i.e. the adjective 'vell' would be entered as 'vell OR vella OR vells OR velles' and the verb 'tenir' would be entered as 'tenir OR té OR tenen OR tingut OR tindrà OR tindran'), and the number of hits returned was recorded and attached to the word in the XML files by means of a tag.