Croatian is one of the many languages whose text corpora are included in Sketch Engine, a tool for discovering how language works. Sketch Engine is designed for linguists, lexicologists, lexicographers, researchers, translators, terminologists, teachers and students working with Croatian to easily discover what is typical and frequent in the language and to notice phenomena which would go unnoticed without a large sample of Croatian text.

Sketch Engine has tools to identify and analyse collocations, synonyms and antonyms, examples of use in context, keywords or terms. Frequency word lists of Croatian single-word or multi-word expressions of various types can be generated. Even users without any technical knowledge can create their own Croatian corpus using the Sketch Engine's intuitive built-in tool.

Tools to work with Croatian text corpora

To work with the Croatian language, Sketch Engine offers the following tools:

Croatian Word Sketch




Croatian concordance

The concordancer included in Sketch Engine can be used to display a list of examples (called concordance) of the search word or phrase as it appears in Croatian language text corpora. The search will display the keyword with some context to the right and context to the left of the keyword (KWIC concordance). more»

Croatian term extraction

Terminology extraction is a feature of Sketch Engine which automatically identifies single-word and multi-word terms in a subject-specific Croatian text by comparing it to a general Croatian corpus. The tool is aimed at translators, terminologists, ESP teachers and anyone who needs to deal with domain texts. The screen with results includes links to example sentences and Wikipedia definitions. more»

Bilingual term extraction


Croatian thesaurus


Croatian word lists

The word list feature will generate a frequency list of all words that appear in a text or corpus. A very large corpus can be used to generate a list of all words that exist in Croatian or all words that start, contain or end with specific characters. Advanced options can be used to generate lists of grammatical categories or parts of speech used in a corpus together with their frequencies. more»

N-grams in Croatian

Generating a list of N-grams contained in a text makes it possible to identify and study patterns and notice phenomena related to multi-word units (MWU) in Croatian that cannot be detected by other tools. more»

List of available Croatian corpora

  • main – only available to paying subscribers
CorpusAccess policySize in words
CHILDES Croatian Corpus main 300,832
Croatian Web (hrWaC 2.2, ReLDI) trial 1,210,021,198
Croatian Web (hrWaC 2.2, RFTagger) trial 1,211,328,660
DGT, Croatian main 3,968,608
EUR-Lex Croatian 2/2016 trial 109,138,184
EUR-Lex judgments Croatian 12/2016 trial 5,613,468
OPUS2 Croatian main 121,369,625
Riznica v0.1 main 85,273,724