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Most Commonly Used Words in the English Language
This list features the most commonly used words in the English language per million words used.
References
EF Education First. (n.d.). Top 3000 words. Retrieved from https://www.ef.com/wwen/english-resources/english-vocabulary/top-3000-words/. [Accessed 1 December 2025].
EF Education First. (n.d.). Top 1000 words. Retrieved from https://www.ef.edu/english-resources/english-vocabulary/top-1000-words/. [Accessed 1 December 2025].
Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Retrieved from https://www.oed.com. [Accessed 1 December 2025].
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Retrieved from https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/. [Accessed 1 December 2025].
Google Ngram Viewer. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/ngrams. [Accessed 1 December 2025].
McCarthy, J.E. (1961). "The Frequency of English Words." The Modern Language Review, 56(1), 119. Retrieved fromhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/40476634 (requires access). [Accessed 1 December 2025].
Pennycook, S.D. (2017). A Frequency Dictionary of English. Routledge. ISBN 9781138727039. Retrieved fromhttps://www.routledge.com/A-Frequency-Dictionary-of-English/Pennycook/p/book/9781138727039. [Accessed 1 December 2025].
Wikipedia contributors. (n.d.). Most common words in English. Retrieved fromhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English. [Accessed 1 December 2025].

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