Character entropy of Voynichese
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@Davidsch: Sorry, but your text doesn't share the same characteristics.


Typical for the VMS is that similar words occur with comparable frequency, whereas types which contain less frequent glyphs or bigrams in most cases occur less frequently. Starting from one of the three core words 'daiin', 'ol' and 'chedy' it is possible for the VMS to build a grid:
 ol (537)   | al (260) | dol (117) | dal (253) |  sol ( 75)  | sal ( 55)
 or (363)   | ar (350) | dor ( 73) | dar (318) |  sor ( 57)  | sar ( 84)
 om ( 22)  | am ( 88) | dom ( 7)  | dam ( 98) |  som ( 1)  | sam ( 10)
 os ( 29)   | as ( 5)  | dos ( 1)  | das ( 4) | sos ( 8)   | sas ( 2) 
(see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as Timm 2014 p. 70)
Such core words does not exist for your text. The most frequent words in your text are 'thy' (8 times) and 'end' (4 times). But they are not similar to other common words like 'flowers' (3 times) and 'vsed' (3 times). Therefore my conclusion is that words similar to each other are not common enough.

Other features not similar to the VMS are:
Similar words like 'fov' and 'fog' do not co-occur. Even the short text contains two phrases where a word is framed by a repeated short word: 'es.well.es' and 'by.eaten.by'.
The word length distribution is not binomial (There are too many short words).
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Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 23-01-2016, 02:08 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by ReneZ - 25-01-2016, 09:28 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by stellar - 04-11-2016, 11:18 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 25-01-2016, 11:53 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 25-01-2016, 07:36 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by ReneZ - 26-01-2016, 08:17 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Davidsch - 16-03-2016, 01:20 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 16-03-2016, 02:37 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Davidsch - 18-03-2016, 11:30 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 18-03-2016, 12:15 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by ReneZ - 18-03-2016, 12:19 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Davidsch - 18-03-2016, 04:52 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Sam G - 19-03-2016, 05:44 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Torsten - 19-03-2016, 06:37 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 19-03-2016, 06:19 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Sam G - 19-03-2016, 07:05 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by ReneZ - 20-03-2016, 12:47 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Torsten - 19-03-2016, 07:32 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Sam G - 19-03-2016, 07:36 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Torsten - 19-03-2016, 07:44 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Sam G - 19-03-2016, 08:09 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Torsten - 19-03-2016, 08:33 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 19-03-2016, 09:26 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Davidsch - 19-03-2016, 10:44 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Torsten - 20-03-2016, 12:24 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Davidsch - 20-03-2016, 12:26 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Torsten - 20-03-2016, 02:42 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by ReneZ - 21-03-2016, 02:24 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 20-03-2016, 01:41 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Davidsch - 20-03-2016, 06:09 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Torsten - 21-03-2016, 12:22 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 02-11-2016, 09:14 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Sam G - 06-11-2016, 12:13 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by -JKP- - 06-11-2016, 12:27 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Sam G - 06-11-2016, 06:26 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 03-11-2016, 01:25 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Davidsch - 03-11-2016, 03:26 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 03-11-2016, 04:02 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 03-11-2016, 04:27 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by -JKP- - 04-11-2016, 01:17 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Koen G - 03-11-2016, 04:31 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 03-11-2016, 04:34 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Koen G - 03-11-2016, 04:37 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 03-11-2016, 05:21 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Davidsch - 03-11-2016, 05:23 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 03-11-2016, 05:45 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 05-11-2016, 10:54 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 06-11-2016, 12:50 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by -JKP- - 07-11-2016, 02:07 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Koen G - 07-11-2016, 05:00 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 07-11-2016, 02:44 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 10-11-2016, 06:32 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 05-01-2017, 12:12 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Koen G - 05-01-2017, 12:44 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 05-01-2017, 01:15 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Davidsch - 20-02-2017, 04:48 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Koen G - 20-02-2017, 05:20 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Davidsch - 20-02-2017, 05:22 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 13-12-2017, 01:25 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 13-12-2017, 01:47 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Koen G - 13-12-2017, 03:22 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 13-12-2017, 03:39 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by ReneZ - 14-12-2017, 06:21 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by ReneZ - 14-12-2017, 09:50 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Torsten - 14-12-2017, 04:47 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 14-12-2017, 01:54 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 14-12-2017, 04:14 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by ReneZ - 14-12-2017, 07:02 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Torsten - 16-12-2017, 01:18 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 14-12-2017, 07:43 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 16-12-2017, 01:35 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Torsten - 16-12-2017, 10:32 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 16-12-2017, 10:39 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Torsten - 16-12-2017, 11:39 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by -JKP- - 17-12-2017, 04:23 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 17-12-2017, 12:10 AM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 17-12-2017, 02:05 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Torsten - 17-12-2017, 02:40 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 17-12-2017, 02:55 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Torsten - 17-12-2017, 09:43 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 03-06-2018, 01:52 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 03-06-2018, 05:39 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 03-06-2018, 05:51 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by -JKP- - 03-06-2018, 06:10 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 03-06-2018, 06:23 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 04-06-2018, 02:52 PM
RE: Character entropy of Voynichese - by Anton - 13-04-2019, 01:01 AM

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