Mapping Voynich connections through rare tokens

[Torsten]

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I think this finding actually supports a production-based explanation rather than arguing against it.

First, the corrected examples — "qotey" (24 instances), "olchedy" (38 instances), "chetey" (5 instances) — are low-frequency members of common word families. 

"olchedy" contains the most characteristic Currier B form "chedy." It appears on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. — a Currier B Herbal folio — and also in other Currier B sections. A Currier B word appearing on Currier B pages across sections isn't a semantic reference — it's the same evolutionary stage producing the same word families wherever B-stage text was written. If you look at the instances of "olchedy" you find it in the context of words like "chedy", "shedy", "lchedy", "lshedy", and "olshedy" (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.)

On You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. there is for instance even an instance of the two words "ol" and "shedy"
<f111r.P.5;H>      ol.shedy
<f111r.P.6;H>      olchedy
<f111r.P.9;H>      olchedy.lchedy
   

Second, the existence of low-frequency words alongside high-frequency ones is itself predicted by the self-reinforcing feedback loop. The feedback loop means that high-frequency words have the highest resonance — they are visible most often, copied most often, generating the most variants. But this necessarily produces a spectrum: some words accumulate high frequency through repeated copying, others remain rare because they were produced few times and never gained momentum in the loop. With other words high frequency words can only exists alongside low frequency words.

The low-frequency words in your analysis are simply the tail of this distribution. They are rare not because they carry specific semantic content but because they had low resonance in the feedback loop — produced few times, rarely visible as sources, rarely copied further. Their cross-section distribution follows the evolutionary gradient: they appear in sections that are adjacent in the production sequence because the same word families were active during those production stages.