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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kilka is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 88 times in scientific texts, 84 times in news, 73 times in essays, 109 times in fiction, and 46 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 400 times, making it the 120th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “kilka, kilko, kielko, kielka, kolko, koliko”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], (Can we date this quote?)
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “kilka”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 177
