from collections import Counter data_set = "Welcome to the world of Geeks " \ "This portal has been created to provide well written well" \ "thought and well explained solutions for selected questions " \ "If you like Geeks for Geeks and would like to contribute " \ "here is your chance You can write article and mail your article " \ " to contribute at geeksforgeeks org See your article appearing on " \ "the Geeks for Geeks main page and help thousands of other Geeks. " \ # split() returns list of all the words in the string split_it = data_set.split() # Pass the split_it list to instance of Counter class. Counters_found = Counter(split_it) #print(Counters) # most_common() produces k frequently encountered # input values and their respective counts. most_occur = Counters_found.most_common(4) print(most_occur)>>> from collections import Counter >>> x = Counter("balloon") >>> x Counter({'o': 2, 'a': 1, 'b': 1, 'l': 2, 'n': 1}) >>> x['o'] 2