Jiten
Visit ↗An open project that counts how often words appear across 16,232 works of Japanese media, and publishes a frequency list for each medium. It answers what a newspaper corpus cannot: what people actually say.
A few rows
Chosen from the data, not taken off the top.
俺
Rank 67 in anime · band 12 of 48 in print
A pronoun almost nobody writes and everybody says.
悪い
Rank 132 in anime · band 48 of 48 in print
A day-one adjective the newspaper list nearly forgets.
What we hold
- Media corpora
- 11
- Words ranked
- 6,636
- Last brought in
- todaySep 4, 2026
What we take
- How common a word is in anime, drama and film subtitles
- The same for novels, manga, games and visual novels
- A combined rank across every medium at once
Terms
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. The credit is a condition of use, and so is sharing any derived data under the same terms. CC BY-SA 4.0