Trying to get the frequency of a word-meaning combination to sort appearance of synonyms and their chance of being the right choice, but looks like wordnet does not provide adequete frequncy or counts even the lemma.count is full of zeros and not trustworthy. as appeared in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12943193/how-to-measure-wordnet-term-frequency-values-and-cooccurence-value-programatical and   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5928704/how-do-i-find-the-frequency-count-of-a-word-in-english-using-wordnet  Another helpful hint is: You can't really do this, because it depends so much on the context. Not only that, for less frequent words the frequency will be wildly dependent on the sample. Your best bet is probably to find a large corpus of text of the given genre (e.g. download a hundred books from Project Gutenberg) and count the words yourself.