How do you sort a dictionary by value?

I often have to sort a dictionary (consisting of keys & values) by value. For example, I have a hash of words and respective frequencies that I want to order by frequency.

There is a SortedList which is good for a single value (say frequency), that I want to map back to the word.

SortedDictionary orders by key, not value. Some resort to a custom class, but is there a cleaner way?

You could use:

var ordered = dict.OrderBy(x => x.Value).ToDictionary(x => x.Key, x => x.Value);