Table 1.
Rank of major word frequencies among 21,929 nouns in the online memoirs.
| Rank | Noun | Freq | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pain, pains | 1028 | 4.69 |
| 2 | Fibro, fibromyalgia, FM | 763 | 3.48 |
| 3 | Years, year, yrs | 507 | 2.31 |
| 4 | Day, days | 459 | 2.09 |
| 5 | Time, times | 400 | 1.82 |
| 6 | Life | 303 | 1.38 |
| 7 | Doctor, doctors, Dr. | 276 | 1.26 |
| 8 | Thing, things | 253 | 1.15 |
| 9 | Body | 199 | 0.91 |
| 10 | People | 193 | 0.88 |
| 11 | Meds, medication, medications | 170 | 0.78 |
| 12 | Symptoms, symptom | 156 | 0.71 |
| 13 | Months, month | 124 | 0.57 |
| 14 | Something | 119 | 0.54 |
| 15 | Muscle, muscles | 118 | 0.54 |
| 16 | Lot, lots | 114 | 0.52 |
| 17 | Way | 111 | 0.51 |
| 18 | Mother, mom | 107 | 0.49 |
| 19 | Week, weeks | 105 | 0.48 |
| 20 | Anything | 97 | 0.44 |
| Family | 97 | 0.44 | |
| 22 | Anyone | 96 | 0.44 |
| Work | 96 | 0.44 | |
| 24 | Husband | 94 | 0.43 |
| 25 | Job | 87 | 0.40 |
| Friends, friend | 87 | 0.40 | |
| 27 | Sleep | 83 | 0.38 |
| 28 | Someone | 82 | 0.37 |
| Problems, problem | 82 | 0.37 | |
| Legs, leg | 82 | 0.37 | |
| 31 | Bed | 81 | 0.37 |
| 32 | Home | 79 | 0.36 |
| 33 | Depression | 78 | 0.36 |
| 34 | Everything | 77 | 0.35 |
| Fatigue | 77 | 0.35 | |
| 36 | Hours, hour | 75 | 0.34 |
| 37 | Night | 74 | 0.34 |
| 38 | Children, child | 73 | 0.33 |
| 39 | Others | 70 | 0.32 |
| 40 | Nothing | 69 | 0.31 |
| Tests | 69 | 0.31 | |
| 42 | Head | 65 | 0.30 |
| Illness | 65 | 0.30 | |
| 44 | Disease | 63 | 0.29 |
| 45 | Support | 60 | 0.27 |
| 46 | Energy | 59 | 0.27 |
| Neck | 59 | 0.27 | |
| 48 | School | 57 | 0.26 |
| Stress | 57 | 0.26 | |
| 50 | Today | 55 | 0.25 |
| 51 | House | 54 | 0.25 |
| Story | 54 | 0.25 | |
| 53 | Person | 53 | 0.24 |
| Mind | 52 | 0.24 | |
| Point | 52 | 0.24 | |
| Feet | 52 | 0.24 | |
| 57 | January | 50 | 0.23 |
| 58 | Brain | 49 | 0.22 |
| 59 | One | 48 | 0.22 |
| 60 | Back | 47 | 0.21 |
| Feeling | 47 | 0.21 | |
| 62 | Everyone | 46 | 0.21 |
| May | 46 | 0.21 | |
| Joints, joint | 46 | 0.21 | |
| 65 | Health | 45 | 0.21 |
| Relief | 45 | 0.21 | |
| 67 | Diagnosis | 43 | 0.20 |
| 68 | Age | 40 | 0.18 |
| Part | 40 | 0.18 | |
| Shoulders, shoulder | 40 | 0.18 | |
| 68 | Care | 40 | 0.18 |
| 72 | Condition | 39 | 0.18 |
| Issues | 39 | 0.18 | |
| July | 39 | 0.18 | |
| 75 | Morning | 38 | 0.17 |
| 76 | Heart | 37 | 0.17 |
| Syndrome | 37 | 0.17 | |
| 78 | Anxiety | 35 | 0.16 |
| Help | 35 | 0.16 | |
| Hands | 35 | 0.16 | |
| June | 35 | 0.16 | |
| November | 35 | 0.16 | |
| 83 | Blood | 34 | 0.16 |
| Weight | 34 | 0.16 | |
| 85 | Exercise | 33 | 0.15 |
| Place | 33 | 0.15 | |
| Kids | 33 | 0.15 | |
| 88 | Daughter | 32 | 0.15 |
| Rest | 32 | 0.15 | |
| Side | 32 | 0.15 | |
| Son | 32 | 0.15 | |
| April | 32 | 0.15 | |
| December | 32 | 0.15 | |
| 94 | Couple | 31 | 0.14 |
| End | 31 | 0.14 | |
| Medicine | 31 | 0.14 | |
| February | 31 | 0.14 | |
| March | 31 | 0.14 | |
| 99 | Kind | 30 | 0.14 |
| 100 | Arthritis | 29 | 0.13 |
| Bit | 29 | 0.13 | |
| Disorder | 29 | 0.13 | |
| 104 | Name | 28 | 0.13 |
| Therapy | 28 | 0.13 | |
| Type | 28 | 0.13 |