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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), naprawdę is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 2 times in news, 13 times in essays, 38 times in fiction, and 64 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 124 times, making it the 481st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “naprawdę”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 271
Further reading
naprawdę in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN