How do I find the frequency count of a word in English using WordNet?

Question

Is there a way to find the frequency of the usage of a word in the English language using WordNet or NLTK using Python?

NOTE: I do not want the frequency count of a

Answer 1

Take a look at the Information Content section of the Wordnet Similarity project at http://wn-similarity.sourceforge.net/. There you will find databases of word frequencies (or, rather, information content, which is derived from word frequency) of Wordnet lemmas, calculated from several different corpora. The source codes are in Perl, but the databases are provided independently and can be easily used with NLTK.