word_list = ['Emma','Woodhouse','father','Taylor','Miss','been','she','her']
#i'm using this example text in place of the file you are using
text = 'This is an example text. It will contain words you are looking for, like Emma, Emma, Emma, Woodhouse, Woodhouse, Father, Father, Taylor,Miss,been,she,her,her,her. I made them repeat to show that the code works.'
text = text.replace(',',' ') #these statements remove irrelevant punctuation
text = text.replace('.','')
text = text.lower() #this makes all the words lowercase, so that capitalization wont affect the frequency measurement
for repeatedword in word_list:
counter = 0 #counter starts at 0
for word in text.split():
if repeatedword.lower() == word:
counter = counter + 1 #add 1 every time there is a match in the list
print(repeatedword,':', counter) #prints the word from 'word_list' and its frequency
Output:
Emma : 3
Woodhouse : 2
father : 2
Taylor : 1
Miss : 1
been : 1
she : 1
her : 3