{"id":912,"date":"2005-05-28T11:37:40","date_gmt":"2005-05-28T19:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/05\/28\/wanted-a-weighted-words-list\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:23:49","slug":"wanted-a-weighted-words-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/05\/28\/wanted-a-weighted-words-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: A Weighted Words List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does anyone know how to create a weight words list? I have the code below, which I found by following the trail from Bookish<\/a>, but the instructions on the website<\/a> are extremely minimal for a geek wannabe like me. I’ve tinkered with it (put it in an index table as instructed) but alas, no success. I’m curious to see how mine would look.
\n
\n<?php<\/p>\n

\/\/ Build the list of words and convert everything to lowercase.
\n$string = strtolower(‘<MTEntries lastn=”10000″><MTEntryCategory remove_html=”1″ encode_php=”q”> <MTEntryTitle remove_html=”1″ encode_php=”q”> <MTEntryBody remove_html=”1″ encode_php=”q”> <MTEntryMore remove_html=”1″ encode_php=”q”> <\/MTEntries><MTOtherBlog blog_id=”7″><MTEntries lastn=”10000″><MTEntryCategory remove_html=”1″ encode_php=”q”> <MTEntryTitle remove_html=”1″ encode_php=”q”> <MTEntryBody remove_html=”1″ encode_php=”q”> <\/MTEntries><\/MTOtherBlog>’);<\/p>\n

\/\/ Remove punctuation.
\n$wordlist = preg_split(‘\/\\s*[\\s+\\.|\\?|,|(|)|\\-+|\\’|\\”|=|;|×|\\$|\\\/|:|{|}]\\s*\/i’, $string);<\/p>\n

\/\/ Build an array of the unique words and number of times they occur.
\n$a = array_count_values( $wordlist );<\/p>\n

\/\/Remove words that don’t matter–“stop words.”
\n$overusedwords = array( ”, ‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’, ‘and’, ‘of’, ‘i’, ‘to’, ‘is’, ‘in’, ‘with’, ‘for’, ‘as’, ‘that’, ‘on’, ‘at’, ‘this’, ‘my’, ‘was’, ‘our’, ‘it’, ‘you’, ‘we’, ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, ‘6’, ‘7’, ‘8’, ‘9’, ‘0’, ’10’, ‘about’, ‘after’, ‘all’, ‘almost’, ‘along’, ‘also’, ‘amp’, ‘another’, ‘any’, ‘are’, ‘area’, ‘around’, ‘available’, ‘back’, ‘be’, ‘because’, ‘been’, ‘being’, ‘best’, ‘better’, ‘big’, ‘bit’, ‘both’, ‘but’, ‘by’, ‘c’, ‘came’, ‘can’, ‘capable’, ‘control’, ‘could’, ‘course’, ‘d’, ‘dan’, ‘day’, ‘decided’, ‘did’, ‘didn’, ‘different’, ‘div’, ‘do’, ‘doesn’, ‘don’, ‘down’, ‘drive’, ‘e’, ‘each’, ‘easily’, ‘easy’, ‘edition’, ‘end’, ‘enough’, ‘even’, ‘every’, ‘example’, ‘few’, ‘find’, ‘first’, ‘found’, ‘from’, ‘get’, ‘go’, ‘going’, ‘good’, ‘got’, ‘gt’, ‘had’, ‘hard’, ‘has’, ‘have’, ‘he’, ‘her’, ‘here’, ‘how’, ‘if’, ‘into’, ‘isn’, ‘just’, ‘know’, ‘last’, ‘left’, ‘li’, ‘like’, ‘little’, ‘ll’, ‘long’, ‘look’, ‘lot’, ‘lt’, ‘m’, ‘made’, ‘make’, ‘many’, ‘mb’, ‘me’, ‘menu’, ‘might’, ‘mm’, ‘more’, ‘most’, ‘much’, ‘name’, ‘nbsp’, ‘need’, ‘new’, ‘no’, ‘not’, ‘now’, ‘number’, ‘off’, ‘old’, ‘one’, ‘only’, ‘or’, ‘original’, ‘other’, ‘out’, ‘over’, ‘part’, ‘place’, ‘point’, ‘pretty’, ‘probably’, ‘problem’, ‘put’, ‘quite’, ‘quot’, ‘r’, ‘re’, ‘really’, ‘results’, ‘right’, ‘s’, ‘same’, ‘saw’, ‘see’, ‘set’, ‘several’, ‘she’, ‘sherree’, ‘should’, ‘since’, ‘size’, ‘small’, ‘so’, ‘some’, ‘something’, ‘special’, ‘still’, ‘stuff’, ‘such’, ‘sure’, ‘system’, ‘t’, ‘take’, ‘than’, ‘their’, ‘them’, ‘then’, ‘there’, ‘these’, ‘they’, ‘thing’, ‘things’, ‘think’, ‘those’, ‘though’, ‘through’, ‘time’, ‘today’, ‘together’, ‘too’, ‘took’, ‘two’, ‘up’, ‘us’, ‘use’, ‘used’, ‘using’, ‘ve’, ‘very’, ‘want’, ‘way’, ‘well’, ‘went’, ‘were’, ‘what’, ‘when’, ‘where’, ‘which’, ‘while’, ‘white’, ‘who’, ‘will’, ‘would’, ‘your’);<\/p>\n

\/\/ Remove the stop words from the list.
\nforeach ($overusedwords as $word) {
\n unset( $a[$word] ); }<\/p>\n

\/\/ Sort the keys alphabetically.
\nksort( $a );<\/p>\n

\/\/ Print the data.
\necho ‘<p class=”noindent”>’;<\/p>\n

\/\/ Assign a font-size to the word based on frequency of use.
\nforeach ($a as $word => $count) {
\n if ($count <= 35) { $size = 75;
\n } elseif ($count <= 50) { $size = 100;
\n } elseif ($count <= 65) { $size = 125;
\n } elseif ($count <= 80) { $size = 150;
\n } elseif ($count <= 95) { $size = 175;
\n } elseif ($count <= 110) { $size = 200;
\n } elseif ($count <= 125) { $size = 225;
\n } elseif ($count <= 140) { $size = 250;
\n } elseif ($count <= 155) { $size = 275;
\n } elseif ($count <= 170) { $size = 300;
\n } elseif ($count <= 200) { $size = 340; }<\/p>\n

\/\/ The keyword needs to be referenced 30 or more times to register.
\n if ($count >= 30) {
\n echo ‘ <span style=”font-size: ‘ . $size . ‘%;”><acronym title=”This keyword occurs ‘ . $count . ‘ times.”>’ . $word . ‘<\/acronym><\/span> ‘; }
\n}<\/p>\n

echo ‘<\/p>’;<\/p>\n

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Does anyone know how to create a weight words list? I have the code below, which I found by following the trail from Bookish, but the instructions on the website are extremely minimal for a geek wannabe like me. I’ve tinkered with it (put it in an index table as instructed) but alas, no success. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12594,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/12594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}