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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://oxforddictionaries.com/words/the-oec-facts-about-the-language The OEC: Facts about the language]. Retrieved Jun(contracted; show full)Source: <ref name=langfacts />

== Parts of speech ==
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===Nouns===
#       time
#       person
-people
#       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-like 
#       see 
#       come 
#       think 
#       look 
#       want 
#       give 
#       use 
#       find 
#       tell 
#       ask 
#       work 
#       seem 
#       feel 
#       try 
#       leave 
#       call

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===Adjectives===
#       good
#       nicew
#       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  
# beneath
# under
# above   
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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]]
* [[Word lists by frequency]]
* [[Letter frequencies]]
* [[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]]

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[[simple:Most common words in English]]
[[zh:英语最常用单词]]