28-12-2025, 02:27 PM
(28-12-2025, 02:01 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Recall that my "OKOKO" partial paradigm says that a Voynichese word is a sequence of "K" elements with "O" elements inserted before, between, and after them, with at most two "O" per slot. Where the "O" elements are {a} {o} {y}, and the "K" elements are all the others.
If we map each element to "O" or "K", we get the "OKOKO pattern" of a word. Here are the 50 most common OKOKO patterns in parag text:
COUNTING OKOKO PATTERNS
5560.000000 0.17179 KOK
2687.250000 0.08303 OKOK
2613.062500 0.08074 KOKOK
2560.125000 0.07910 KKO
2192.250000 0.06773 OK
1751.125000 0.05410 KO
1479.875000 0.04572 KOKKO
1400.312500 0.04327 KOKO
1296.250000 0.04005 OKKO
1276.125000 0.03943 KKOK
1108.750000 0.03426 KKKO
839.000000 0.02592 KOKKKO
833.000000 0.02574 OKKKO
646.562500 0.01998 OKO
627.625000 0.01939 OKKOK
593.750000 0.01835 K
425.875000 0.01316 KOKKOK
287.437500 0.00888 OKOKO
281.750000 0.00871 O
254.875000 0.00787 KK
232.437500 0.00718 KOKOKO
226.000000 0.00698 KKKOK
221.375000 0.00684 OKOKOK
201.250000 0.00622 KKOKO
192.562500 0.00595 KKKKO
160.625000 0.00496 KKK
147.312500 0.00455 KKOKOK
138.750000 0.00429 KOOK
128.625000 0.00397 KOKK
112.000000 0.00346 OKKOKO
110.437500 0.00341 OKKKKO
98.625000 0.00305 OKK
97.375000 0.00301 KOKKK
94.375000 0.00292 OKKKOK
91.500000 0.00283 OKOKKO
86.000000 0.00266 OKKK
79.250000 0.00245 KOKOKOK
75.750000 0.00234 KOKKKKO
72.750000 0.00225 OOK
66.875000 0.00207 KKOKKO
59.625000 0.00184 KOKKOKO
55.000000 0.00170 KOKKKOK
52.250000 0.00161 KOKOKKO
45.500000 0.00141 OKKOKOK
39.250000 0.00121 KOO
38.500000 0.00119 KKKK
34.875000 0.00108 OKOKKOK
33.000000 0.00102 OKOKK
31.000000 0.00096 KKKOKO
30.250000 0.00093 OKOKKKO
These counts are already using the new constraint of at most three "O"s, which, as shown in the previous post, excludes only 94 tokens out of ~31'000.
Note that the distribution is long-tailed, with no obvious cut-off.
On this list, the first OKOKO pattern with two consecutive "O"s is #28, "KOOK", with 138.75 occurrences.
The first one with three total "O"s is (surprise"!) #18, "OKOKO" itself, with 287.4375 occurrences.
All the best, --stolfi