Neyleisimmät

Neyleisimmät is a Finnish term used to refer to the most common items in a dataset, especially in language frequency analysis. It denotes the subset of elements with the highest occurrence and is often used when discussing vocabulary, forms, or features that recur most frequently. In ordinary prose the phrase would usually appear as two words ne yleisimmät, but the form neyleisimmät can appear as a single token when used as a label or keyword.

Etymology and usage notes: the word combines ne, a demonstrative pronoun meaning “those,” with yleisimmät, the superlative form meaning “the most common.” While standard Finnish typically writes it as two words, the single-word variant is common in headings, glossaries, or data-driven contexts to function as a compact label for a frequency-based subset.

Applications and interpretation: the term is most often encountered in corpus linguistics, language teaching, and media analysis. It is used to describe top-N lists that capture the items with the highest frequency in a given corpus or domain. Analysts may discuss neyleisimmät words, phrases, or forms to illustrate core vocabulary, common collocations, or typical usage patterns.

Examples: neyleisimmät sanat suomen kielessä (the most common Finnish words) or neyleisimmät verbin taivutusmuodot (the most frequent verb inflections). In standard Finnish prose, one would typically write ne yleisimmät, reserving neyleisimmät for titles or data labels.

See also: frequency list, corpus linguistics, top-N list, frequency analysis.