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    ENG01 - 100 Commonest English Words

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    This document lists the 100 most common words in English based on evidence from the Oxford English Corpus. It provides the ranking of each word from "the" as the most common to "us" as the 100th most common word. These words were identified as being the most frequently used in writing globally based on analysis of a billion words in the Oxford English Corpus.

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    This document lists the 100 most common words in English based on evidence from the Oxford English Corpus. It provides the ranking of each word from "the" as the most common to "us" as the 100th most common word. These words were identified as being the most frequently used in writing globally based on analysis of a billion words in the Oxford English Corpus.

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    100 Commonest English Words (1)

    100 Commonest English Words


    Based on evidence from the billion-word Oxford English Corpus, Oxford have identified the hundred commonest English words found in
    writing globally:
    1 the
    ! be
    " to
    # of
    $ and
    % a
    & in
    ' that
    ( have
    1) *
    11 it
    1! for
    1" not
    1# on
    1$ with
    1% he
    1& as
    1' you
    1( do
    !) at
    !1 this
    !! but
    !" his
    !# by
    !$ from
    !% they
    !& we
    !' say
    !( her
    ") she
    "1 or
    "! an
    "" will
    "# my
    "$ one
    "% all
    "& would
    "' there
    "( their
    #) what
    #1 so
    #! up
    #" out
    ## if
    #$ about
    #% who
    #& get
    #' which
    #( go
    $) me
    $1 when
    $! ma+e
    $" can
    $# li+e
    $$ time
    $% no
    $& ,ust
    $' him
    $( +now
    %) ta+e
    %1 person
    %! into
    %" year
    %# your
    %$ good
    %% some
    %& could
    %' them
    %( see
    &) other
    &1 than
    &! then
    &" now
    &# loo+
    &$ only
    &% come
    && its
    &' over
    &( thin+
    ') also
    '1 bac+
    '! after
    '" use
    '# two
    '$ how
    '% our
    '& wor+
    '' first
    '( well
    () way
    (1 even
    (! new
    (" want
    (# because
    ($ any
    (% these
    (& give
    (' day
    (( most
    1)) us
    -ource: Concise Oxford English Dictionary .11th edition, !))%/
    0ote that these are the commonest words found in writing, which will not necessarily be the same as in speech

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