(Python) Can anyone help with making the code return the number of times the most common word in a string

Question

Example_list = [ ‘ the ‘ , ‘ cat, ‘ ran ‘ , ‘ across’ , ‘ the ‘ , ‘street’, ‘ to ‘ , ‘catch ‘ , ‘ the ‘ , ‘ mouse’]

Def most_common_word(data)

Print (‘ most_common_word:’, end= ‘ ‘)

Return ( word, count)
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Answer 1

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Answer 2

Using a for loop sounds good.
And I see that you tagged dictionaries. So I would use it.

Answer 3

Indentation is essential in Python. Please check the indentation.

On each iteration of the loop, check if the current word is in your dictionary:
If not, add the word as key with the value 1
If yes, increase the value in the dictionary by 1

Answer 4

We need to see what YOU tried, so please link your complete code.

Answer 5

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Just save all the words in a list , count the number of time each occurs and print the one with the highest occurance . In python it can be done in just a 2 line program.

Answer 6

This is for homework but so far ive only tried putting a For loop and what is given above is what my professor initially gave us to start out with so i dont have full code

Answer 7

Ive inserted what i started on so far

Answer 8

This is not working because of improper syntax.

The syntax should be like this:

def func():
# your code