def word_stats(filename, n):
	words = open(filename).read().replace('\n', '').lower().split()
	words = [''.join(e for e in w if e.isalpha()) for w in words]
	out = {}
	for word in words:
		if word in out.keys():
			out[word]['count'] += 1
		else:
			out[word] = {'count': 0, 'word': word}

	out = sorted(out, key=lambda x:x[0])

	return out

o = word_stats('article.txt', 5)