with open('file.txt') as f:
    words = f.read().split()

counts = dict()
for word in words:
    counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1

sorted_asc = sorted(counts.items(), key=lambda x: x[1])
sorted_desc = sorted(counts.items(), key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)

print('word count:', len(words))
print('most frequent word :', sorted_desc[0])
print('least frequent word:', sorted_asc[0])