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ENCompound words have always been easyly usable and popular for clear meaning among language users. This article analyzes the actual frequency of compound nominatives in the Dictionary of the Modern Lithuanian language and in written language in general as it is represented in the Corpus stored in the Computer Centre of Linguistics of Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University. The Corpus of the Modern Lithuanian Language is based on the texts of the state and local newspapers, publications of science, belles-lettres, schoolbooks, scientific-cognitive literature, and documents. 4684 compound words were found in the Corpus; the article analyzes 3343 nouns and 1283 adjectives. Having analysed the actual usage of the compound nouns and compound adjectives in the written language, it has been found that 21 percent of compound nouns and 14 percent of compound adjectives arc actually not included into the Dictionary of the Modern Lithuanian Language. A closer analysis shows that the compound words with a stylistic labcl/rcfcrcncc/mark such as ling., zem., bot., ir., techn. and others, (akmenlinda, krumpliaratis) appear most frequently, and also have the defined synonyms (didturtis/didiiaturtis, grįigatvislaklagatvis), or they arc out-of-date and do not correspond to the present reality of the modern words (duonmalkės).Analysis of the composition of some unused compound words proved that words with the verb matuoti as a second component have not been found but only with the first component as a noun or an adjective, the word itself means some kind of meter or a measurer, for example: giliamatis, greitmatis, etc. The disappearance of these words in the written language leads to some doubts whether wc always use compound words for easy usability and economy.