For example , in the Brown Corpus of American English text , the word `` the '' is the most frequently occurring word , and by itself accounts for nearly 7 % of all word occurrences ( 69,971 out of slightly over 1 million ) .
For example , in one sample of words , the most frequently occurring word accounts for nearly 7 % of all the words ( 69,971 out of slightly over 1 million ) .