avatar Bite 18. Find the most common word

Write a function that returns the most common (non stop)word in this Harry Potter text.

Make sure you convert to lowercase, strip out non-alphanumeric characters and stopwords. Your function should return a tuple of (most_common_word, frequency).

The template code already loads the Harry Potter text and list of stopwords in.

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