齐夫定律（英语：Zipf's law，IPA英语发音：/ˈzɪf/）是由哈佛大学的语言学家乔治·金斯利·齐夫（George Kingsley Zipf）于1949年发表的实验定律。它可以表述为：在自然语言的语料库里，一个单词出现的频率与它在频率表里的排名成反比。所以，频率最高的单词出现的频率大约是出现频率第二位的单词的2倍，而出现频率第二位的单词则是出现频率第四位的单词的2倍。这个定律被作为任何与幂定律概率分布有关的事物的参考。

Zipf's law /ˈzɪf/, an empirical law formulated using mathematical statistics, refers to the fact that many types of data studied in the physical and social sciences can be approximated with a Zipfian distribution, one of a family of related discrete power law probability distributions. The law is named after the American linguist George Kingsley Zipf (1902–1950), who popularized it and sought to explain it (Zipf 1935, 1949), though he did not claim to have originated it. The French stenographer Jean-Baptiste Estoup (1868–1950) appears to have noticed the regularity before Zipf. It was also noted in 1913 by German physicist Felix Auerbach (1856–1933).