According toSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990),particle is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 19 times in scientific texts, 15 times in news, 20 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 67 times, making it the 980th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
^Ida Kurcz (1990), “particle”, inSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page736