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The list below of '''most common words in English''', like any superlative list, cannot be definitive. It is based on an analysis of the [[Oxford English Corpus]] of over a [[1000000000 (number)|billion]] words, and represents one study done by [[Oxford_English_Dictionary#The_electronic_versions|Oxford Online]], associated with the [[Oxford English Dictionary]].<ref name=langfacts> [http://www.askoxford.com/oec/mainpage/oec02/?view=uk AskOxford.com: Language Facts]. Retri(contracted; show full)#       government 
#       company 
#       number 
#       group 
#       problem 
#       fact
#       bike
#       sheshagiri rao
 mallela
#       karunakar reddy chitta 
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===Verbs===	
#       be 
#       have
#       do
#       eat
#       sleep
#       drink
#       put
#       keep   
#       run 
#       walk
#       say 
#       get 
#       make 
#       go 
#       know 
#       take 
#       see 
#       come 
#       think 
#       look 
#       want 
#       give 
#       use 
#       find 
#       tell 
#       ask 
#       work 
#       seem 
#       feel 
#       try 
#       leave 

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===Adjectives===
#       good 
#       first
#       new 
#       last 
#       long 
#       great 
#       little 
#       own 
#       other 
#       old 
#       right 
#       big 
#       high 
#       different 
#       small 
#       large 
#       next
#       early 
#       young 
#       important 
#       few 
#       public 
#       private 
#       more 
#       bad 
#       same 
#       able
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Source: <ref name=langfacts />

==See also==
* [[A General Service List of English Words]]
* [[Basic English]]
* [[Dolch Word List]]
* [[Frequency analysis]]
* [[Frequency list]]
* [[Letter frequencies]]
* [[Most common words in Esperanto]]
* [[Number of words in English]]
* [[Oxford English Corpus]]
* [[Swadesh list]]
* [[Zipf's law]]

==References==
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[[Category:Lists of English words]]

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