Python program that finds most frequent word in a .txt file, Must print word and its count

Question

As of right now, I have a function to replace the countChars function,

def countWords(lines):
  wordDict = {}
  for line in lines:
    wordList = lines.split         


        

Answer 1

 words = ['red', 'green', 'black', 'pink', 'black', 'white', 'black', 
'eyes','white', 'black', 'orange', 'pink', 'pink', 'red', 'red', 
'white', 'orange', 'white', "black", 'pink', 'green', 'green', 'pink', 
'green', 'pink','white', 'orange', "orange", 'red']

 from collections import Counter
 counts = Counter(words)
 top_four = counts.most_common(4)
 print(top_four)