denckring-de-frequency

German frequency bands for denckring, from the Leipzig Corpora Collection.

pip install denckring[de-frequency]

It supplies one capability, lexicon.graded_words: a table pairing each word with a band from 10 to 60, where larger means less common. anagram needs it to rank the covers it finds — a search that cannot tell a common word from a rare one returns its answers in no useful order — and without this distribution German anagram can check but not generate.

It registers no entry point. denckring-de-data owns the de language and its pack() factory composes this distribution in when it is importable, because denckring refuses two packs claiming one language (ADR 0013, ADR 0030).

Why a separate distribution

German data now arrives under three licences: denckring-de-data is CC0 Wikidata, denckring-de-wiktionary is CC BY-SA Wiktionary, and this is CC BY Leipzig. ADR 0013 quarantines a data licence in its own distribution, and CC BY cannot join the CC0 package — CC0 waives rights where CC BY requires attribution, so merging them would make that package's declaration false.

It is deliberately independent of denckring-de-wiktionary, so German anagram does not pull in 6.5 MB of pronunciations it never reads.

Rebuilding the table

uv run python packages/denckring-de-frequency/scripts/build_frequency.py

Downloads the corpus once into ~/.cache/denckring-dumps and writes graded_words.txt.gz. See ADR 0038 for the case rule the build turns on, and for the two costs it accepts.