diff --git a/bin/build_word_list.py.in b/bin/build_word_list.py.in
index 854e983be070af0c635a83358b8e0f4e609b02d0..bb79a9eb21f892adf02f067856d499de8a9d1c11 100644
--- a/bin/build_word_list.py.in
+++ b/bin/build_word_list.py.in
@@ -14,5 +14,6 @@ n = options.frequency
 
 wd_list = word_list( args[0] )
 for w,ct in wd_list.items():
-    print w.encode('latin-1'),ct
+    if ct >= n:
+        print w.encode('latin-1'),ct