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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(contracted; show full)| 100 || us
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== Parts of speech ==

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===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

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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

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===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]]

==References==
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[[Category:Lists of English words]]
[[Category:Lists of common words]]
[[he:המילים השכיחות ביותר באנגלית]]
[[zh:英语最常用单词]]