These are the frequencies with which Shakespeare used word types.
There are 846 word types which appear more than 100 times in his
total works, giving an overall total of 31534 word types.
Usage
data(bard)
Arguments
source
Efron, B. and Thisted, R. (1976) Estimating the number of
unseen species: How many words did Shakespeare know? Biometrika,
63, 435--448.
Thisted, R. and Efron, B. (1987 ) Did Shakespeare write a newly-discovered poem?
Biometrika, 74, 445--455.
Details
The canon of Shakespeare's accepted works contains 884,647 words, with
31,534 distinct word types. A word type is a distinguishable arrangement
of letters, so `king' is different from `kings' and `alehouse' different
from both `ale' and `house'.
References
Davison, A. C. (2003) Statistical Models. Cambridge University Press.
Page 629.