most frequent word in a list python

from collections import Counter

a = [1936, 2401, 2916, 4761, 9216, 9216, 9604, 9801] 

c = Counter(a)

print(c.most_common(1)) # the one most common element... 2 would mean the 2 most common
[(9216, 2)] # a set containing the element, and it's count in 'a'

words = [
   'red', 'green', 'black', 'pink', 'black', 'white', 'black', 'eyes',
   'white', 'black', 'orange', 'pink', 'pink', 'red', 'red', 'white', 'orange',
   'white', "black", 'pink', 'green', 'green', 'pink', 'green', 'pink',
   'white', 'orange', "orange", 'red'
]
from collections import Counter
word_counts = Counter(words)
top_four = word_counts.most_common(4)
print(top_four)