in reply to How do I create a list with the 10 most frequently used words in a file?

Here is the obligatory "one-liner" to get the top ten word frequency: 
perl -anE "$c{$_}++ for @F}{ ++$top<11 && say qq|$c{$_}\t$_| for sort 
+{$c{$b}<=>$c{$a}} keys %c" YOUR-FILE.txt

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