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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), żaden is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 52 times in scientific texts, 33 times in news, 37 times in essays, 71 times in fiction, and 86 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 279 times, making it the 183rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References
^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “żaden”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 795
Further reading
żaden in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “żaden”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
“ŻADEN”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 13.11.2019