C (828)
It looks alot like obfuscated code, and uses glib for string, list and hash. Char count with wc -m says 828 . It does not consider single-char words. To calculate the max length of the bar, it consider the longest possible word among all, not only the first 22. Is this a deviation from the spec?
It does not handle failures and it does not release used memory.
#include
#define S(X)g_string_##X
#define H(X)g_hash_table_##X
GHashTable*h;int m,w=0,z=0;y(const void*a,const void*b){int*A,*B;A=H(lookup)(h,a);B=H(lookup)(h,b);return*B-*A;}void p(void*d,void*u){int *v=H(lookup)(h,d);if(w<22){g_printf("|");*v=*v*(77-z)/m;while(--*v>=0)g_printf("=");g_printf("| %s\n",d);w++;}}main(c){int*v;GList*l;GString*s=S(new)(NULL);h=H(new)(g_str_hash,g_str_equal);char*n[]={"the","and","of","to","it","in","or","is"};while((c=getchar())!=-1){if(isalpha(c))S(append_c)(s,tolower(c));else{if(s->len>1){for(c=0;c<8;c++)if(!strcmp(s->str,n[c]))goto x;if((v=H(lookup)(h,s->str))!=NULL)++*v;else{z=MAX(z,s->len);v=g_malloc(sizeof(int));*v=1;H(insert)(h,g_strdup(s->str),v);}}x:S(truncate)(s,0);}}l=g_list_sort(H(get_keys)(h),y);m=*(int*)H(lookup)(h,g_list_first(l)->data);g_list_foreach(l,p,NULL);}
