The 100 Most Used English Words

2007-01-19T20:18:00.000-08:00

The Top 100 Most Used English Words Lists

First 100 Words	DuBois Learning Center	World-English	WordCount
1	the	the	the
2	of	of	of
3	and	to	and
4	a	and	to
5	to	a	a
6	in	in	in
7	is	is	that
8	you	it	it
9	that	you	is
10	it	that	was
11	he	he	I
12	was	was	for
13	for	for	on
14	on	on	you
15	are	are	he
16	as	with	be
17	with	as	with
18	his	I	as
19	they	his	by
20	I	they	at
21	at	be	have
22	be	at	are
23	this	one	this
24	have	have	not
25	from	this	but
26	or	from	had
27	one	or	his
28	had	had	they
29	by	by	from
30	word	hot	she
31	but	but	which
32	not	some	or
33	what	what	we
34	all	there	an
35	were	we	there
36	we	can	her
37	when	out	were
38	your	other	one
39	can	were	do
40	said	all	been
41	there	your	all
42	use	when	their
43	an	up	has
44	each	use	would
45	which	word	will
46	she	how	what
47	do	said	if
48	how	an	can
49	their	each	when
50	if	she	so
51	will	which	no
52	up	do	said
53	other	their	who
54	about	time	more
55	out	if	about
56	many	will	up
57	then	way	them
58	them	about	some
59	these	many	could
60	so	then	him
61	some	them	into
62	her	would	its
63	would	write	then
64	make	like	two
65	like	so	out
66	him	these	time
67	into	her	like
68	time	long	only
69	has	make	my
70	look	thing	did
71	two	see	other
72	more	him	me
73	write	two	your
74	go	has	now
75	see	look	over
76	number	more	just
77	no	day	may
78	way	could	these
79	could	go	new
80	people	come	also
81	my	did	people
82	than	my	any
83	first	sound	know
84	water	no	very
85	been	most	see
86	call	number	first
87	who	who	well
88	oil	over	after
89	its	know	should
90	now	water	than
91	find	than	where
92	long	call	back
93	down	first	how
94	day	people	get
95	did	may	most
96	get	down	way
97	come	side	down
98	made	been	our
99	may	now	made
100	part	find	got

The fact of any list is that you need to understand where the samples were taken from in order to establish the frequency of use. It is rather interesting that even the top ten words vary in the various lists. And, even at spot number three, four, and five we see a variance in the word usage frequencies.

The bottom line is there is no definitive word usage list.

I wonder if Google has crunched these numbers for all of the pages they have indexed to find the most frequently used words written. I wonder how long it would take to run the program, and wonder if it is even possible to actually compute it, not just an estimate.

Jim Warholic
Professional Web Services, Internet Marketing Services

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The 100 Most Used English Words