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The list below of '''most common words in English''' 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]. Retrieved June 22, 2006. </ref> This source includes writings of all sorts from "literary novels and specialist journals to everyday newspapers and magazines and from [[Hansard]] to the language of chatrooms, emails, and weblogs",<ref name=oec> [http://www.askoxford.com/oec/mainpage/?view=uk AskOxford.com: The Oxford English Corpus]. Retrieved June 22, 2006. </ref> unlike some sources which use texts from only specific sources.<ref name=1000uk> [http://www.bckelk.ukfsn.org/words/uk1000n.html Top 1000 words in UK English]. </ref>

''The Reading Teachers Book of Lists'' claims that the first 25 words make up about one-third of all printed material in English, and that the first 100 make up about one-half of all written material.<ref name=duboislc> [http://www.duboislc.org/EducationWatch/First100Words.html The First 100 Most Commonly Used English Words]. </ref>

Note that the items listed may represent more than one actual word; they are [[Lemma (morphologylinguistics)|lemmas]]s. For instance the entry "be" contains within it the occurrences of "are", "is", "were" and "was".<ref name=langlog> [[Benjamin Zimmer]]. June 22, 2006. [http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003274.html Time after time after time...]. [[Language Log]]. Retrieved June 22, 2006. </ref> Note also that these top 100 lemmas listed below account for 50% of all the words in the Oxford English Corpus.<ref name=langfacts/>

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== Parts of speech ==
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Verbs===	 Nouns===
#       time 
#       person
#       year 
#       way 
#       day 
#       thing 
#       man 
#       world 
#       life 
#       hand 
#       part 
#       child 
#       eye 
#       woman 
#       place 
#       work 
#       week 
#       case 
#       point 
#       government 
#       company 
#       number 
#       group 
#       problem  
#       fact
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===Verbs===	
#       be 
#       have
#       do
#       say  
#       get ⏎
#       make 
#       go  
#       know  
#       take  
#       see  
#       come  
#       think 
#       look  
#       want  
#       give  
#       use 
#       find  
#       tell  
#       ask 
#       work  
#       seem  
#       feel  
#       try       
#       leave           
#       call ⏎
#       eat ⏎
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===Adjectives===
#       good 
#       new 
#       first 
#       last 
#       long 
#       great 
#       little 
#       own  
#       other 
#       old 
#       right 
#       big 
#       high 
#       different 
#       small 
#       large 
#       next
#       early 
#       young 
#       important 
#       few 
#       public 
#       bad 
#       same 
#       able

===Prepositions===
# to
# of
# in
# for
# on
# with
# at
# by
# from
# up
# about
# into
# over
# after    

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==See also==
* [http://www.sightwordsgame.com/sight-words/100-most-common-words/ Oxford Corpus' 100 Compared to Dolch and Fry]
* [[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]]⏎
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==References==
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[[Category:Lists of English words]]
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