python sorted word frequency count

1>>> # Tally occurrences of words in a list
2>>> from collections import Counter
3>>> cnt = Counter()
4>>> for word in ['red', 'blue', 'red', 'green', 'blue', 'blue']:
5...     cnt[word] += 1
6>>> cnt
7Counter({'blue': 3, 'red': 2, 'green': 1})
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