PyRank
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wordfreq

Access a database of word frequencies, in various natural languages.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

wordfreq has 1.7M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 3.1.1 supports Python >=3.8,<4, first published in 2014.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2023.

It is built on top of ftfy, langcodes and locate. It is used by 51 tracked packages, including pyxai, binsync and reasoning-core.

Downloads
Day
61.2K
Week
399.9K
Month
1.7M
Stars
1.7K
Forks
113
Issues
10
Version
3.1.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
65
Adoption
70
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
548 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,724,027
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
• At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,724,027
Stars
1,684
Stars per 1k downloads
0.98
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
• Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
57,128
Month daily avg
57,468
Momentum
-0.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8,<4
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache-2.0
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
958 days ago
Total releases
31
Releases/year
2.5
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
• Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
10
Monthly downloads
1,724,027
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
33
 
Issue Burden
5.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
8.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
409d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 33.5K
Windows 387
macOS 321

Python Versions

3.12
49.9% 16.6K
3.9
35.1% 11.7K
3.13
5.7% 1.9K
3.11
5.6% 1.9K
3.14
3.8% 1.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
18.0K
2. FR FR
6.0K
3. IE IE
1.8K
4. IN IN
715
5. AU AU
664
6. CA CA
633
7. DE DE
592
8. JP JP
579
9. CN CN
397
10. SG SG
388

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
January 29, 2014
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
3.1.1
Total Releases
31
Contributors
10
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Robyn Speer
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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