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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wciąż is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 24 times in essays, 32 times in fiction, and 16 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 86 times, making it the 745th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wciąż”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 656
Further reading
wciąż in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wciąż”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
“WCIĄŻ”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku, (Can we date this quote?)