Talk a Lot Foundation Course The 100 Most Common Words in Written English The Oxford University list of the top 100 high-frequency words in written English is based on an analysis of the Oxford English Corpus, which is a collection of texts in English that has a combined total of over one billion words This analysis was done by Oxford Online, in association with the Oxford English Dictionary Of these top 100 words, 60 are function words, including all but of the top 30 words! “the” is the most common word in written English From Wikipedia: “Note that the items listed may represent more than one actual word; they are lemmas For instance the entry “be” contains within it the occurrences of “are”, “is”, “were”, and “was” Note also that these top 100 lemmas listed below account for 50% of all the words in the Oxford English Corpus.” [emphasis mine] Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English, accessed on 04.04.2011 Function words are highlighted and weak forms (where possible) are shown with the Clear Alphabet: 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 the be to of and a in that have I it for not on with he as you at this but his by from they we say her she or an will my one th bi t uhv uhn uh th_ uhv uh i_ f w i uhz y d uh_ b_ iz b frm th w uh sh uh uhn uhl m Talk a Lot Foundation Course 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 all would there their what so up out if about who get which go me when make can like time no just him know take person into year your good some could them see other wd th th au_ uhf uh bau_ mi kn im y than then now look only come its over think also back after use two how our work first well way even new want because any these give day most us thn uh_s ar b kz uh nii uhz sm kd thm English Banana.com 187 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 Lesson Page