SELECT word, COUNT(*) word_cnt
FROM your_table
GROUP BY word
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC
LIMIT 10

The GROUP BY groups by values of word, the ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC gets you the rows with highest count first, and the LIMIT 10 returns the first 10 rows only.

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