> second-most word is twice as common as the third-most, and so forth. Normally Zipf's law refers to the frequency being inversely proportional to rank - i.e.

> second-most word is twice as common as the third-most, and so forth. Normally Zipf's law refers to the frequency being inversely proportional to rank - i.e. the 3rd most common element would be 1/3 as frequent as the first, not 1/4th.