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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wcale is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 18 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 19 times in essays, 31 times in fiction, and 53 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 125 times, making it the 480th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “wcale”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
^ Mańczak, Witold (2017) “wcale”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “cale”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)
^ “WCALE”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku , 20.09.2022
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wcale”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 655
Further reading
wcale in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN