1,000 Most Frequently Used Words in English
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. Is it any wonder that all students must learn to recognize these words instantly and to spell them correctly also?
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people |
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two |
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come |
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write |
made |
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their |
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over |
say |
set |
try |
new |
great |
put |
kind |
sound |
where |
end |
hand |
take |
help |
does |
picture |
only |
through |
another |
again |
little |
much |
well |
change |
work |
before |
large |
off |
know |
line |
must |
play |
place |
right |
big |
spell |
year |
too |
even |
air |
live |
mean |
such |
away |
me |
old |
because |
animal |
back |
any |
turn |
house |
give |
same |
here |
point |
most |
tell |
why |
page |
very |
boy |
ask |
letter |
after |
follow |
went |
mother |
thing |
came |
men |
answer |
our |
want |
read |
found |
just |
show |
need |
study |
name |
also |
land |
still |
good |
around |
different |
learn |
sentence |
form |
home |
should |
man |
three |
us |
America |
think |
small |
move |
world |
high |
saw |
important |
miss |
every |
left |
until |
idea |
near |
don’t |
children |
enough |
add |
few |
side |
eat |
food |
while |
feet |
face |
between |
along |
car |
watch |
own |
might |
mile |
far |
below |
close |
night |
Indian |
country |
something |
walk |
really |
plant |
seem |
white |
almost |
last |
next |
sea |
let |
school |
hard |
began |
above |
father |
open |
grow |
girl |
keep |
example |
took |
sometimes |
tree |
begin |
river |
mountain |
never |
life |
four |
cut |
start |
always |
carry |
young |
city |
those |
state |
talk |
earth |
both |
once |
soon |
eye |
paper |
book |
list |
light |
together |
hear |
song |
thought |
got |
stop |
being |
head |
group |
without |
leave |
under |
often |
second |
family |
story |
run |
later |
it’s |
body |
order |
listen |
farm |
music |
red |
wind |
pulled |
color |
door |
rock |
draw |
stand |
sure |
space |
voice |
sun |
become |
covered |
seen |
question |
top |
fast |
cold |
fish |
ship |
several |
cried |
area |
across |
hold |
plan |
mark |
today |
himself |
notice |
dog |
during |
toward |
south |
horse |
short |
five |
sing |
birds |
better |
step |
war |
problem |
best |
morning |
ground |
complete |
however |
passed |
fall |
room |
low |
vowel |
king |
knew |
hours |
true |
town |
since |
black |
hundred |
I’ll |
ever |
products |
against |
unit |
piece |
happened |
pattern |
figure |
told |
whole |
numeral |
certain |
usually |
measure |
table |
field |
didn’t |
remember |
north |
travel |
friends |
early |
slowly |
wood |
easy |
waves |
money |
fire |
heard |
reached |
map |
upon |
done |
decided |
plane |
filled |
English |
contain |
system |
heat |
road |
course |
behind |
full |
halt |
surface |
ran |
hot |
ten |
produce |
round |
check |
fly |
building |
boat |
object |
gave |
ocean |
game |
am |
box |
class |
force |
rule |
finally |
note |
brought |
among |
wait |
nothing |
understand |
noun |
correct |
rest |
warm |
power |
oh |
carefully |
common |
cannot |
quickly |
scientists |
bring |
able |
person |
inside |
explain |
six |
became |
wheels |
dry |
size |
shown |
stay |
though |
dark |
minutes |
green |
language |
ball |
strong |
known |
shape |
material |
verb |
island |
deep |
special |
stars |
week |
thousands |
heavy |
front |
less |
yes |
fine |
feel |
machine |
clear |
pair |
fact |
base |
equation |
circle |
inches |
ago |
yet |
include |
street |
stood |
government |
built |
can’t |
picked |
legs |
beside |
matter |
simple |
sat |
gone |
square |
cells |
main |
sky |
syllables |
paint |
winter |
glass |
perhaps |
mind |
wide |
million |
bill |
love |
written |
west |
felt |
cause |
length |
lay |
suddenly |
rain |
reason |
weather |
test |
exercise |
kept |
root |
direction |
eggs |
interest |
instruments |
center |
train |
arms |
meet |
farmers |
blue |
brother |
third |
ready |
wish |
race |
months |
anything |
drop |
present |
paragraph |
divided |
developed |
beautiful |
raised |
general |
window |
store |
represent |
energy |
difference |
job |
soft |
subject |
distance |
edge |
whether |
Europe |
heart |
past |
clothes |
moon |
sit |
sign |
flowers |
region |
sum |
record |
shall |
return |
summer |
finished |
teacher |
believe |
wall |
discovered |
held |
dance |
forest |
wild |
describe |
members |
probably |
happy |
drive |
cross |
already |
hair |
rolled |
speak |
instead |
age |
bear |
solve |
phrase |
amount |
wonder |
appear |
soil |
scale |
smiled |
metal |
bed |
pounds |
angle |
son |
copy |
although |
fraction |
either |
free |
per |
Africa |
ice |
hope |
broken |
killed |
sleep |
spring |
moment |
melody |
village |
case |
tiny |
bottom |
factors |
laughed |
possible |
trip |
result |
nation |
gold |
hole |
jumped |
quite |
milk |
poor |
snow |
type |
quiet |
let’s |
ride |
themselves |
natural |
fight |
care |
temperature |
lot |
surprise |
floor |
bright |
stone |
French |
hill |
lead |
act |
died |
pushed |
everyone |
build |
beat |
baby |
method |
middle |
exactly |
buy |
section |
speed |
remain |
century |
lake |
count |
dress |
outside |
consonant |
cat |
iron |
everything |
within |
someone |
couldn’t |
tall |
dictionary |
sail |
fingers |
row |
president |
yourself |
caught |
least |
brown |
control |
fell |
catch |
trouble |
practice |
team |
climbed |
cool |
report |
God |
wrote |
cloud |
straight |
captain |
shouted |
lost |
rise |
direct |
continued |
sent |
statement |
ring |
itself |
symbols |
stick |
serve |
else |
wear |
party |
child |
plains |
bad |
seeds |
desert |
gas |
save |
suppose |
increase |
England |
experiment |
woman |
history |
burning |
engine |
coast |
cost |
design |
alone |
bank |
maybe |
joined |
drawing |
period |
business |
foot |
east |
wire |
separate |
law |
pay |
choose |
break |
ears |
single |
clean |
uncle |
grass |
touch |
visit |
hunting |
you’re |
information |
bit |
flow |
grew |
express |
whose |
lady |
skin |
mouth |
received |
students |
valley |
yard |
garden |
human |
cents |
equal |
please |
art |
key |
decimal |
strange |
feeling |
supply |
guess |
thick |
major |
corner |
silent |
blood |
observe |
electric |
trade |
lie |
tube |
insects |
rather |
spot |
necessary |
crops |
compare |
bell |
weight |
tone |
crowd |
fun |
meat |
hit |
poem |
loud |
lifted |
sand |
enjoy |
consider |
process |
doctor |
elements |
suggested |
army |
provide |
indicate |
thin |
hat |
thus |
except |
position |
property |
won’t |
expect |
entered |
particular |
cook |
flat |
fruit |
swim |
bones |
seven |
tied |
terms |
tail |
interesting |
rich |
current |
board |
sense |
dollars |
park |
modern |
string |
send |
sell |
compound |
blow |
sight |
shoulder |
mine |
famous |
chief |
industry |
wasn’t |
value |
Japanese |
wash |
fit |
wings |
stream |
block |
addition |
movement |
planets |
spread |
belong |
pole |
rhythm |
cattle |
safe |
exciting |
eight |
wife |
soldiers |
branches |
science |
sharp |
company |
sister |
gun |
total |
radio |
oxygen |
similar |
deal |
we’ll |
plural |
death |
determine |
action |
various |
score |
evening |
capital |
agreed |
forward |
nor |
factories |
opposite |
stretched |
rope |
settled |
wrong |
experience |
cotton |
yellow |
chart |
rose |
apple |
isn’t |
prepared |
allow |
details |
southern |
pretty |
fear |
entire |
truck |
solution |
workers |
corn |
fair |
fresh |
Washington |
substances |
printed |
shop |
Greek |
smell |
wouldn’t |
suffix |
women |
tools |
ahead |
especially |
bought |
conditions |
chance |
shoes |
led |
cows |
born |
actually |
march |
track |
level |
nose |
northern |
arrived |
triangle |
afraid |
create |
located |
molecules |
dead |
British |
sir |
France |
sugar |
difficult |
seat |
repeated |
adjective |
match |
division |
column |
fig |
win |
effect |
western |
office |
doesn’t |
underline |
church |
huge |
steel |
view |