How to create a frequency list of every word in a file?

Question

I have a file like this:

This is a file with many words.
Some of the words appear more than once.
Some of the words only appear one time.

I

Answer 1

You can use tr for this, just run

tr ' ' '\12'  result.txt

Sample Output for a text file of city names:

3026 Toronto
2006 Montréal
1117 Edmonton
1048 Calgary
905 Ottawa
724 Winnipeg
673 Vancouver
495 Brampton
489 Mississauga
482 London
467 Hamilton