# Ferret Analysis

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-analysis/108671>\
**Category:** Ferret\
**Created:** [July 5, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-analysis/108671 "2007-07-05T22:11:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![jaredjackson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@jaredjackson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jaredjackson)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-analysis/108671/1 "2007-07-05T22:11:50Z")

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Is it possible to query an index and retrieve, for example, the 10 most  
commonly found words in the index?

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**Author:** ![jaredjackson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@jaredjackson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jaredjackson)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2007, 10:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-analysis/108671/2 "2007-07-06T10:16:01Z")

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On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:11:50PM +0200, Jared Jackson wrote:

> Is it possible to query an index and retrieve, for example, the 10 most  
> commonly found words in the index?

[http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/Index/TermEnum.html](http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/Index/TermEnum.html)  
gets quite close to this - it lets you enumerate all terms of a specific  
field including their frequency.

Jens

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