Lexical frequency data from DWDS corpora for a case study on regional variation in German

This dataset contains lexical frequency data from three DWDS corpora – the ZDL-Regionalkorpus, the Webmonitor-Korpus, and the Regionalliteratur-Korpus (not publicly accessible) – for a case study comparing the regional distribution of the following German nouns: “Samstag” and “Sonnabend”, “Komma” and “Beistrich”, “Fahrrad”, “Radl”, and “Velo”, “Aufzug”, “Fahrstuhl”, and “Lift”. The dataset contains the following data types: TXT files recording the corpus queries, CSV tables with absolute and relative hit frequencies, obtained on 17 Feb. 2026 from the DWDS API, SVG maps derived from the relative hit frequencies.