<p>As Geany is an IDE the basic use-case for autocomplete is for programming language identifiers where there frequency is meaningless and alphabetic order is appropriate.</p>

<p>The autocomplete all words is a simple extension of that functionality that allows completion for filetypes that do not have parsers.  I presume you are referring to this mode, then "useless" would be to not allow it at all, providing an alternative sorting order is an enhancement which may be useful.</p>

<p>If somebody wants to provide an option for counting the occurrence frequency and sorting on that, then if can be considered.</p>

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