Top 1,000 Words in English
The Most-Used English Words

The English word frequency list that we have here is a computer analysis of selected English text sources (books, magazines, newspapers, etc.) done by the English Club International. These are the most common words in English, ranked in frequency order. The first 25 make up about a third of all printed material. The first 100 make up about half of all written material, and the first 300 make up about 65 percent of all written material.

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