Lesson 24 — Mini project: word frequency (expert)
Combine everything
Count words, then report the top ones sorted by frequency — a real text-analysis task. collections.Counter counts for you, and most_common(k) returns the k most frequent items as (word, count) pairs.
Why it matters: this pattern powers search, tag clouds and analytics.
Print the 2 most common words and their counts.
Run your code — when the output matches the task, you will see a green check. Then mark the lesson complete.
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