Frequency of word use

Studies that estimate and rank the most common words in English examine texts written in English. Perhaps the most comprehensive such analysis is one that was conducted against the Oxford English Corpus (OEC), a massive text corpus that is written in the English language.

In total, the texts in the Oxford English Corpus contain more than 2 billion words.^[1] The OEC includes a wide variety of writing samples, such as literary works, novels, academic journals, newspapers, magazines, Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, blogs, chat logs, and emails.^[2]

Another English corpus that has been used to study word frequency is the Brown Corpus, which was compiled by researchers at Brown University in the 1960s. The researchers published their analysis of the Brown Corpus in 1967. Their findings were similar, but not identical, to the findings of the OEC analysis.

According to The Reading Teacher’s Book of Lists, the first 25 words in the OEC make up about one-third of all printed material in English, and the first 100 words make up about half of all written English.^[3] According to a study cited by Robert McCrum in The Story of English, all of the first hundred of the most common words in English are of Old English origin,^[4] except for «people», ultimately from Latin «populus», and «because», in part from Latin «causa».

Some lists of common words distinguish between word forms, while others rank all forms of a word as a single lexeme (the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary). For example, the lexeme be (as in to be) comprises all its conjugations (is, was, am, are, were, etc.), and contractions of those conjugations.^[5] These top 100 lemmas listed below account for 50% of all the words in the Oxford English Corpus.^[1]

100 most common words

A list of 100 words that occur most frequently in written English is given below, based on an analysis of the Oxford English Corpus (a collection of texts in the English language, comprising over 2 billion words).^[1] A part of speech is provided for most of the words, but part-of-speech categories vary between analyses, and not all possibilities are listed. For example, «I» may be a pronoun or a Roman numeral; «to» may be a preposition or an infinitive marker; «time» may be a noun or a verb. Also, a single spelling can represent more than one root word. For example, «singer» may be a form of either «sing» or «singe». Different corpora may treat such difference differently.

The number of distinct senses that are listed in Wiktionary is shown in the polysemy column. For example, «out» can refer to an escape, a removal from play in baseball, or any of 36 other concepts. On average, each word in the list has 15.38 senses. The sense count does not include the use of terms in phrasal verbs such as «put out» (as in «inconvenienced») and other multiword expressions such as the interjection «get out!», where the word «out» does not have an individual meaning.^[6] As an example, «out» occurs in at least 560 phrasal verbs^[7] and appears in nearly 1700 multiword expressions.^[8]

The table also includes frequencies from other corpora. Note that as well as usage differences, lemmatisation may differ from corpus to corpus – for example splitting the prepositional use of «to» from the use as a particle. Also the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) list includes dispersion as well as frequency to calculate rank.

Word	Parts of speech	OEC rank	COCA rank^[9]	Dolch level	Polysemy
the	Article	1	1	Pre-primer	12
be	Verb	2	2	Primer	21
to	Preposition	3	7, 9	Pre-primer	17
of	Preposition	4	4	Grade 1	12
and	Conjunction	5	3	Pre-primer	16
a	Article	6	5	Pre-primer	20
in	Preposition	7	6, 128, 3038	Pre-primer	23
that	Conjunction et al.	8	12, 27, 903	Primer	17
have	Verb	9	8	Primer	25
I	Pronoun	10	11	Pre-primer	7
it	Pronoun	11	10	Pre-primer	18
for	Preposition	12	13, 2339	Pre-primer	19
not	Adverb et al.	13	28, 2929	Pre-primer	5
on	Preposition	14	17, 155	Primer	43
with	Preposition	15	16	Primer	11
he	Pronoun	16	15	Primer	7
as	Adverb, conjunction, et al.	17	33, 49, 129	Grade 1	17
you	Pronoun	18	14	Pre-primer	9
do	Verb, noun	19	18	Primer	38
at	Preposition	20	22	Primer	14
this	Determiner, adverb, noun	21	20, 4665	Primer	9
but	Preposition, adverb, conjunction	22	23, 1715	Primer	17
his	Possessive pronoun	23	25, 1887	Grade 1	6
by	Preposition	24	30, 1190	Grade 1	19
from	Preposition	25	26	Grade 1	4
they	Pronoun	26	21	Primer	6
we	Pronoun	27	24	Pre-primer	6
say	Verb et al.	28	19	Primer	17
her	Possessive pronoun	29, 106	42	Grade 1	3
she	Pronoun	30	31	Primer	7
or	Conjunction	31	32	Grade 2	11
an	Article	32	(a)	Grade 1	6
will	Verb, noun	33	48, 1506	Primer	16
my	Possessive pronoun	34	44	Pre-primer	5
one	Noun, adjective, et al.	35	51, 104, 839	Pre-primer	24
all	Adjective	36	43, 222	Primer	15
would	Verb	37	41	Grade 2	13
there	Adverb, pronoun, et al.	38	53, 116	Primer	14
their	Possessive pronoun	39	36	Grade 2	2
what	Pronoun, adverb, et al.	40	34	Primer	19
so	Conjunction, adverb, et al.	41	55, 196	Primer	18
up	Adverb, preposition, et al.	42	50, 456	Pre-primer	50
out	Preposition	43	64, 149	Primer	38
if	Conjunction	44	40	Grade 3	9
about	Preposition, adverb, et al.	45	46, 179	Grade 3	18
who	Pronoun, noun	46	38	Primer	5
get	Verb	47	39	Primer	37
which	Pronoun	48	58	Grade 2	7
go	Verb, noun	49	35	Pre-primer	54
me	Pronoun	50	61	Pre-primer	10
when	Adverb	51	57, 136	Grade 1	11
make	Verb, noun	52	45	Grade 2 [as «made»]	48
can	Verb, noun	53	37, 2973	Pre-primer	18
like	Preposition, verb	54	74, 208, 1123, 1684, 2702	Primer	26
time	Noun	55	52	Dolch list of 95 nouns	14
no	Determiner, adverb	56	93, 699, 916, 1111, 4555	Primer	10
just	Adjective	57	66, 1823		14
him	Pronoun	58	68		5
know	Verb, noun	59	47		13
take	Verb, noun	60	63		66
people	Noun	61	62		9
into	Preposition	62	65		10
year	Noun	63	54		7
your	Possessive pronoun	64	69		4
good	Adjective	65	110, 2280		32
some	Determiner, pronoun	66	60		10
could	Verb	67	71		6
them	Pronoun	68	59		3
see	Verb	69	67		25
other	Adjective, pronoun	70	75, 715, 2355		12
than	Conjunction, preposition	71	73, 712		4
then	Adverb	72	77		10
now	Preposition	73	72, 1906		13
look	Verb	74	85, 604		17
only	Adverb	75	101, 329		11
come	Verb	76	70		20
its	Possessive pronoun	77	78		2
over	Preposition	78	124, 182		19
think	Verb	79	56		10
also	Adverb	80	87		2
back	Noun, adverb	81	108, 323, 1877		36
after	Preposition	82	120, 260		14
use	Verb, noun	83	92, 429		17
two	Noun	84	80		6
how	Adverb	85	76		11
our	Possessive pronoun	86	79		3
work	Verb, noun	87	117, 199		28
first	Adjective	88	86, 2064		10
well	Adverb	89	100, 644		30
way	Noun, adverb	90	84, 4090		16
even	Adjective	91	107, 484		23
new	Adjective et al.	92	88		18
want	Verb	93	83		10
because	Conjunction	94	89, 509		7
any	Pronoun	95	109, 4720		4
these	Pronoun	96	82		2
give	Verb	97	98		19
day	Noun	98	90		9
most	Adverb	99	144, 187		12
us	Pronoun	100	113		6

Parts of speech

The following is a very similar list, subdivided by part of speech.^[1] The list labeled «Others» includes pronouns, possessives, articles, modal verbs, adverbs, and conjunctions.

Rank	Nouns	Verbs	Adjectives	Prepositions	Others
1	time	be	good	to	the
2	person	have	new	of	and
3	year	do	first	in	a
4	way	say	last	for	that
5	day	get	long	on	I
6	thing	make	great	with	it
7	man	go	little	at	not
8	world	know	own	by	he
9	life	take	other	from	as
10	hand	see	old	up	you
11	part	come	right	about	this
12	child	think	big	into	but
13	eye	look	high	over	his
14	woman	want	different	after	they
15	place	give	small		her
16	work	use	large		she
17	week	find	next		or
18	case	tell	early		an
19	point	ask	young		will
20	government	work	important		my
21	company	seem	few		one
22	number	feel	public		all
23	group	try	bad		would
24	problem	leave	same		there
25	fact	call	able		their

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d «The Oxford English Corpus: Facts about the language». OxfordDictionaries.com. Oxford University Press. What is the commonest word?. Archived from the original on December 26, 2011. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
^ «The Oxford English Corpus». AskOxford.com. Archived from the original on May 4, 2006. Retrieved June 22, 2006.
^ The First 100 Most Commonly Used English Words Archived 2013-06-16 at the Wayback Machine.
^ Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way, Harper Perennial, 2001, page 58
^ Benjamin Zimmer. June 22, 2006. Time after time after time…. Language Log. Retrieved June 22, 2006.
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Word Frequencies

Top Twenty Most Used Words in Written English

^{the of to in and a for was is that on at he with by be it an as his}

Top Twenty Most Used Words in Spoken English

^{the and I to of a you that in it is yes was this but on well he have for}

Two Letter Word Frequency

^{of to in it is be as at so we he by or on do if me my up an go no us am}

Three Letter Word Frequency

^{the and for are but not you all any can had her was one our out day get has

him his how man new now old see two way who boy did its let put say she too use}

Four Letter Word Frequency

^{that with have this will your from they know want been good much some time very

when come here just like long make many more only over such take than them well were}

Word Frequency for the Most Common Words

^{the of and to in a is that be it by are for was as he with on his at which

but from has this will one have not were or all their an i there been many more

so when had may today who would time we about after dollars if my other some

them being its no only over very you into most than they day even made out first

great must these can days every found general her here last new now people

public said since still such through under up war well where while years before

between country debts good him interest large like make our take upon what}

100 Most Frequently Used Words

^{about after all am an and are as at back be because been big but by came

can come could day did do down first for from get go going got had has have he

her here him his I if in into is it just like little look made make me more my

no not now of off on one only or our out over said saw see she so some that the

their them then there they this to two up very was we well went were what when

where which who will with would you your}

50 Most Frequently Used UK Operators

^{come get give go keep let make put seem take be do have say see send may will

about across after against among at before between by down from in off on over

through to under up with as for of till than a the all any every no other some

such that this I he you who and because but or if through while how when where

why again ever far forward hear near now out still there then together well

almost enough even little much not only quite so very tomorrow yesterday north

south east west please yes}

50 Most Frequently Used UK General Things

^{account act addition adjustment advertisement agreement air amount amusement

animal answer apparatus approval argument art attack attempt attention

attraction authority back balance base behavior belief birth bit bite blood blow

body brass bread breath brother building burn burst business butter canvas care

cause chalk chance change cloth coal color comfort committee company comparison

competition condition connection control cook copper copy cork cotton cough

country cover crack credit crime crush cry current curve damage danger daughter

day death debt decision degree design desire destruction detail development

digestion direction discovery discussion disease disgust distance distribution

division doubt drink driving dust earth edge education effect end error event

example exchange existence expansion experience expert fact fall family father

fear feeling fiction field fight fire flame flight flower fold food force form

friend front fruit glass gold government grain grass grip group growth guide

harbor harmony hate hearing heat help history hole hope hour humor ice idea

impulse increase industry ink insect instrument insurance interest invention

iron jelly join journey judge jump kick kiss knowledge land language laugh law

lead learning leather letter level lift light limit linen liquid list look loss

love machine man manager mark market mass meal measure meat meeting memory metal

middle milk mind mine minute mist money month morning mother motion mountain

move music name nation need news night noise note number observation offer oil

operation opinion order organization ornament owner page pain paint paper part

paste payment peace person place plant play pleasure poison point polish porter

position powder power price print process produce profit property prose protest

pull punishment purpose push quality question rain range rate ray reaction

reading reason record regret relation religion representative request respect

rest reward rhythm rice river road roll room rub rule run salt sand scale

science sea seat secretary selection self sense servant sex shade shake shame

shock side sign silk silver sister size sky sleep slip slope smash smell smile

smoke sneeze snow soap society son song sort sound soup space stage start

statement steam steel step stitch stone stop story stretch structure substance

sugar suggestion summer support surprise swim system talk taste tax teaching

tendency test theory thing thought thunder time tin top touch trade transport

trick trouble turn twist unit use value verse vessel view voice walk war wash

waste water wave wax way weather week weight wind wine winter woman wood wool

word work wound writing year}

50 Most Frequently Used UK Picturable Things

^{angle ant apple arch arm army baby bag ball band basin basket bath bed bee bell

berry bird blade board boat bone book boot bottle box boy brain brake branch

brick bridge brush bucket bulb button cake camera card carriage cart cat chain

cheese chest chin church circle clock cloud coat collar comb cord cow cup

curtain cushion dog door drain drawer dress drop ear egg engine eye face farm

feather finger fish flag floor fly foot fork fowl frame garden girl glove goat

gun hair hammer hand hat head heart hook horn horse hospital house island jewel

kettle key knee knife knot leaf leg library line lip lock map match monkey moon

mouth muscle nail neck needle nerve net nose nut office orange oven parcel pen

pencil picture pig pin pipe plane plate plough pocket pot potato prison pump

rail rat receipt ring rod roof root sail school scissors screw seed sheep shelf

ship shirt shoe skin skirt snake sock spade sponge spoon spring square stamp

star station stem stick stocking stomach store street sun table tail thread

throat thumb ticket toe tongue tooth town train tray tree trousers umbrella wall

watch wheel whip whistle window wing wire worm}

50 Most Frequently Used UK Qualities

^{able acid angry automatic beautiful black boiling bright broken brown cheap

chemical chief clean clear common complex conscious cup deep dependent early

elastic electric equal fat fertile first fixed flat free frequent full general

good great grey hanging happy hard healthy high hollow important kind like

living long male married material medical military natural necessary new normal

open parallel past physical political poor possible present private probable

quick quiet ready red regular responsible right round same second separate

serious sharp smooth sticky stiff straight strong sudden sweet tall thick tight

tired true violent waiting warm wet wide wise yellow young}

50 Most Frequently Used UK Opposites

^{awake bad bent bitter blue certain cold complete cruel dark dead dear delicate

different dirty dry false feeble female foolish future green ill last late left

loose loud low mixed narrow old opposite public rough sad safe secret short shut

simple slow small soft solid special strange thin white wrong}

American Heritage Word Frequency Book

^{the of and a to in is you that it he for was on are as with his they at be this

from I have or by one had not but what all were when we there can an your which

their said if do will each about how up out them then she many some so these

would other into has more her two like him see time could no make than first

been its who now people my made over did down only way find use may water long

little very after words called just where most know get through back much before

go good new write out used me man too any day same right look think also around

another came come work three word must because does part even place well such

here take why things help put years different away again off went old number

great tell men say small every found still between name should Mr. home big give

air line set own under read last never us left end along while might next sound

below saw something thought both few those always looked show large often

together asked house don’t world going want school important until 1 form food

keep children feet land side without boy once animals life enough took sometimes

four head above kind began almost live page got earth need far hand high year

mother light parts country father let night following 2 picture being study

second eyes soon times story boys since white days ever paper hard near sentence

better best across during today others however sure means knew it’s try told

young miles sun ways thing whole hear example heard several change answer room

sea against top turned 3 learn point city play toward five using himself usually}

Poetic Annex to Basic English Words

^{angel arrow beast blind bow breast bride brow bud calm child cross crown curse

dawn delight dew dove dream eagle eternal evening evil fair faith fate feast

flock flow fountain fox gentle glad glory God grace grape grief guest hawk

heaven hell hill holy honey honor image ivory joy lamb lark life lion lord

meadow melody mercy noble passion perfume pity pool praise prayer pride priest

purple rapture raven robe rock rose rush search shining shower sorrow soul spear

spirit storm strength sword their tower travel valley veil vine violet virtue

vision wandering wealth weariness weeping wisdom wolf wonder}

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Is there a website that will give me a frequency of a word in the English language?
I am looking for some thing like this: I would type in the word, and it would give me a frequency rating.

I have seen one before that had something like 80,000 words, but I just can’t seem to find it anymore.

Update:
I think the problem with these frequency lists is that they are not accurate enough, because some words are also used as Proper Nouns, and that skews the numbers. For example, the word «bracken» is rarely used in its original meaning «fern», but it is frequently used as a last name. If you take that into consideration, then you can see a more accurate number.

RyeɃreḁd

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asked Apr 3, 2014 at 14:29

This is irrelevant to the question, but it’s a simple and useful tool.Type the word or phrase you are interested in google’s search box with quotes.

For example, «duplicity».

The number of search results which are displayed below the search bar is a nice indication of the frequency of the particular word in web.

answered Oct 30, 2015 at 12:48

RajeshRajesh

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Up-goer 6 is an online prototype text editor that color-codes words by frequency, and if you click on the word, it’ll tell you the frequency more exactly.

https://splasho.com/upgoer6/

KillingTime

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answered Jul 11, 2021 at 13:40

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Counting words and lemmas: The following frequency lists count distinct orthographic words, including inflected and some capitalised forms. For example, the verb «to be» is represented by «is», «are», «were», and so on.

Suggestions for how to use these lists[edit]

Frequency lists have many applications in the realm of second language acquisition and beyond. One use for such lists in the context of the Wiktionary project is as an aid in identifying missing terms of high-frequency and thus, it is assumed, of high priority. Since Wiktionary aims not just to be a mere database of lemmas, but a multi-directional, multi-lingual dictionary aimed at English speaking users, there are certain advantages to lists which include inflected forms as well. These forms reflect words as they are likely to be encountered and thus as they may be used in lookup.

Feel free to add definitions for words on these lists if you know the languages involved! Even better if you can include usage citations and references. If you are involved in another non-English language edition of Wiktionary, you might also consider implementing or expanding on this idea, if there is not already something similar in place. If you see a word in this list which is clearly out of place (wrong language, punctuation, superfluous capitalisation), you are welcome to remove it. However, please leave valid bluelinks in place as these pages may be copied for use with other language projects in the future.

However, this system is far from perfect due to the variable quality of the source data and the automated nature of processing. Thus a word’s presence in any of these lists is merely an invitation for further investigation as to whether an entry is warranted. Please be mindful that there will be many words which are misspelt, which are not commonly accepted words of the language for which they appear, which are not words at all, or which do not fulfil the Wiktionary Criteria for Inclusion. Collocations may or may not warrant their own individual entries, and not necessarily in the exact form they appear here. As an aid to navigating this list, consider enabling the OrangeLinks.js gadget to reveal headword pages which exist (and so will still show a blue link) but which do not yet contain an entry for the relevant language. Please be mindful too that not all of the resources listed here are suitable for use directly in Wiktionary, mainly due to problems with licensing compatibilities.

Frequency lists[edit]

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Danish ·
Dutch ·
Eastern Mari ·
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French ·
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Hebrew ·
Hindi ·
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Icelandic ·
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Italian ·
Japanese ·
Kapampangan ·
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Latvian ·
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Lower Sorbian ·
Lü ·
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Malay ·
Mandarin ·
Manx ·
Māori ·
Marshallese ·
Nepali ·
Norwegian ·
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Portuguese ·
Romanian ·
Russian ·
Sanskrit ·
Scots ·
Serbo-Croatian ·
Slovak ·
Slovene ·
Spanish ·
Swahili ·
Swedish ·
Tagalog ·
Telugu ·
Thai ·
Turkish ·
Udmurt ·
Ukrainian ·
Upper Sorbian ·
Uyghur ·
Vietnamese ·
Welsh ·
West Frisian ·
Western Mari ·
Yiddish

External links[edit]

Resources covering many languages[edit]

Word frequency lists from 10K up to 1M+ for 270+ languages, available for download as part of the Leipzig Corpora Collection ^{(CC BY-4.0)}
50K and larger word lists based on www.opensubtitles.org for 60+ Languages ^{(CC BY-SA-4.0)}
Frequency lists for English, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish derived from corpora assembled by Leeds University’s Centre for Translation Studies ^{(CC BY-2.5)}
The wordfreq Python library contains large frequency lists for 40+ languages. ^{(Data under various licence conditions, some of which may be incompatible with Wiktionary.)}
Frequency lists for learners of Arabic, Chinese, English, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian and Swedish, available as part of the Kelly project. ^{Swedish: (CC-BY-SA 3.0, LGPL 3.0); (all others: CC BY-ND-NC-SA 2.0, meaning they are incompatible with wiktionary)}
The SEAlang Library aims to collect lexical resources for the languages of South-East Asia. Resources are available for Balinese, Burmese, Indonesian, Javanese, Karen, Khmer, Lao, Malay, Maguindanao, Maranao, Mon, Shan, Thai, Vietnamese, among others. ^{(Some resources are available under a generic CC license, however others are covered by copyright. You should check on an individual basis.)}
Wordlists in the CLARIN infrastructure — just over half are monolingual lists in 10 languages (Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Maltese, Ngbugu, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish), while the other two dozen are in bilingual and multilingual combinations. ^{(Some resources are available under a permissive or copyleft license, however others may be covered by copyright. You should check on an individual basis.)}
Gimenes, Manuel, and Boris New. «Worldlex: Twitter and blog word frequencies for 66 languages.» Behavior research methods, 2015, pp. 1-10. PDF, data.

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When learning a new language the amount of vocabulary can be daunting. Have you heard people say things like: “We only use around 700 words when we talk?” This is true to some degree. The number of words to learn to speak a language really depends on your purpose. Remember that 300 to 600 words may be enough to travel, but at least 1,000 words are necessary for a conversation. The most important thing is not knowing how many words you need to speak a language, but which words to know. Complete fluency is in the 10,000 word range. According to the economist: “Most adult native test-takers range from 20,000–35,000 words. Average native test-takers of age 8 already know 10,000 words. Average native test-takers of age 4 already know 5,000 words. Adult native test-takers learn almost 1 new word a day until middle age”

10,000 words. Wow. That does seem daunting when you are first starting out. But like anything new, you just have to start small and keep adding to it. Why not start smart as well? Below is a list of 100 words that are the most commonly used in the Spanish language.

That’s why we wrote this blog article: Find the 1000 words used most often in spoken English below.

WHY THESE 1000 WORDS?

Let’s imagine that you just got a job as a bartender. Would you try to learn every cocktail known to man, or would you focus on the cocktails that are most popular in your area? We developed this list of words based on the idea of the 80/20 principle (the cornerstone of results-based living). This strategy developed by David Kock that says “The 80/20 Principle asserts that a minority of causes, inputs or efforts usually lead to a majority of the results, outputs or rewards” So instead of learning 10,000 words in no particular order, learn the most common 100 words, then the most common 500 words, and then the most common 1000 words. If you want to check out this classic business book, you can order it here. You can also scroll down to start reviewing the 1000 most common words in English below.

SOME OTHER GREAT WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR VOCABULARY:

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Do some quick daily exercises on DuoLingo or any other free language learning app
Take some classes with us at Strømmen and speak to a real human in person or online
Use our list of 1000 most common words in English below. If you don’t know a word you can use google translate to see the meaning.

OUR LIST OF THE 1000 MOST COMMON WORDS IN ENGLISH BELOW:

This list is provided by www.wordfrequency.info (thank you!) and is the list that is most useful for language learners. According to thir site it is “Perhaps most useful for language learners, where they probably don’t care about the separate frequency of individual word forms, e.g. decide, decides, decided. It shows the frequency (raw frequency and frequency per million words) in each of the eight main genres: blogs, other web, TV/Movies, (more formal) spoken, fiction, magazine, newspaper, and academic. If you would like to further explore the data please head over to their site. We have chosen this list of 1000 most common words in English because we feel it is the best data set for those of you looking to improve your English vocabulary.

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