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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), choćby is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 22 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 22 times in essays, 40 times in fiction, and 30 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 123 times, making it the 982nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References
^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “choćby”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “choćby”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 47
Further reading
choćby in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
“CHOĆBY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 07.05.2010