Modern Ukrainian text contains words that open proofing tools flag as calques or loans with a preferred native form. A frequency list counts what people actually write, so some of those words rank high. A learner should know both: the word they will see, and the form a careful editor would choose.
What was measured
The list was joined against LanguageTool's Ukrainian replacement tables, the open proofing rules used by many editors. 83 of the 12,000 words are flagged (63 as hard replacements, 20 as soft suggestions). None are in the top 1,000, and only 2 are in the top 2,000, so a beginner meets few of them.
One finding stands out: in 44 of the 69 clean one-word swaps (63.8%), the suggested native form is rarer in the corpus or absent from the list. The recommended word is often not the one people write most.
A sample
| Word on the list | Tool's suggested form | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| поліце́йський | поліційний | hard |
| прийо́м | приймання | hard |
| безкошто́вний | безплатний | soft |
| безкошто́вно | безплатно | soft |
| передвиборний | передвиборчий | hard |
| держдепартамент | Держдепартамент | hard |
| місцезнаходження | місце | hard |
| власть | влада | hard |
| міліцейський | міліціонер | hard |
| подалі | трохи далі | soft |
| затребуваний | потрібний | hard |
Read this carefully
- These flags are unvalidated: they are a prescriptive signal from an open tool, not a ruling. The study runs a native-speaker review of them.
- This is a page about vocabulary, not politics. A flagged word is not wrong to understand, and many appear in respected writing.
The full table and method are in the derussification study.