The Aargh Page

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5,740	Peak numbers are significantly higher frequency than their neighbors. For example, aaaarrrrrrgh (four 'a's, 6 'r's) is higher frequency than aaarrrrrrgh, aaaarrrrrgh, aaaaarrrrrrgh, or aaaarrrrrrrgh.
608,000	Suggestion targets are suggested as substitutes for a neighbor. For example, Google suggests aaargh as a substitue for aaaaaarrrgh, aaaaaaarrrgh, and aaaaaarrrrgh.
14,400	High-frequency spellings have a red background.
171	Low-frequency spellings have a white or pink background.

Click on a number to Google for its occurrences. Google will generally report a different number of occurrences than the count listed here, since the web will have changed after this page was made.

Notes

Not surpisingly, "argh" is much more frequent than any of the alternatives, and the items with fewer 'a's or 'r's are more frequent than their longer neighbors.
However, there are high-frequency islands, even way out in the long-word planes. For example, "a¹⁷r²³gh" (17,23) occurs in 171 pages, even though if you change the number of 'a's or 'r's by one, it drops at least 20-fold. "A¹⁵r⁵gh" is almost 100 times more frequent than its neighbors.
This might be be because these spellings occur in frequently-copied material such as quotes. You could trace the propogation of text fragments by looking for low-frequency spellings and collocations.
Now look at the interactive visualization. Sometimes Google suggests a word that is lower-frequency than the original. For example, it suggests "aaaarrrrgh" (4,4) for (4,5) "aaaarrrrrgh", even though the former has occurs in 520 pages and the latter in almost 10,0000. In fact, (4,4) is less frequent than its neighbors, but suggested for most of them. Maybe Google is counting tokens, not pages?

(Are there any more words like this? Hmmm...)

Aarghive

The blog entry for this page is here .