Don’t know if I understand exactly what u want but if u want to find in that map how many records have a value u should use it like this :
public static void main(String[] args) {
Map<String, List<String>> invertedindex = new HashMap<String, List<String>>();
List<String> myList = new ArrayList<>();
myList.add("firstitem");
myList.add("seconditem");
invertedindex.put("book", myList);
invertedindex.put("book2", myList);
int count_ = Collections.frequency(invertedindex.values(), myList);
System.out.println(count_);
}
This will print 2.