Sort line of text | filter to only print unique lines | print just the first word of each line | filter the print just the unique lines and the count | sort the

Sort line of text | filter to only print unique lines | print just the first word of each line | filter the print just the unique lines and the count | sort the counts numerically | print the top 10 Given a bunch of lines of text, this reports on the frequency of first starting words. Probably the -C should be lower case?