Efficient algorithm to randomly select items with frequency?

This sounds like roulette wheel selection, mainly used for the selection process in genetic/evolutionary algorithms.

You could create the target array, then loop through the words determining the probability that it should be picked, and replace the words in the array according to a random number.

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