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The 100 most common words in English
The Rapid Russian Vocabulary Program includes the 100 most common words(lemmas)
in English translated into their Russian equivalents.
They make up 50% of any conversation or written material. (See
the article below from Wikipedia about this claim.)
This means that for any conversation, anywhere, anytime, about anything; half the
words would probably be from these 100 words (lemmas)
Most common words in English
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The list below of most common words in English, like any superlative list, cannot
be definitive. It is based on an analysis of the Oxford English Corpus of over a
thousand million words, and represents one study done by Oxford Online, associated
with the Oxford English Dictionary. This source includes writings of all sorts from
"literary novels and specialist journals to everyday newspapers and magazines and
from Hansard to the language of chatrooms, emails, and weblogs", unlike some sources
which use texts from only specific sources.
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 "is", "was", "be"
and "are".
Note also that these top 100 lemmas listed below
account for 50% of all the words in the Oxford English Corpus.
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Rank
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Word
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1
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the
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2
|
be
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3
|
to
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4
|
of
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5
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and
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6
|
a
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7
|
in
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8
|
that
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9
|
have
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10
|
I
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11
|
it
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12
|
for
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13
|
not
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14
|
on
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15
|
with
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16
|
he
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17
|
as
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18
|
you
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19
|
do
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20
|
at
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21
|
this
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22
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but
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23
|
his
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24
|
by
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25
|
from
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26
|
they
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27
|
we
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28
|
say
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29
|
her
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30
|
she
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31
|
or
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32
|
an
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33
|
will
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34
|
my
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35
|
one
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36
|
all
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37
|
would
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38
|
there
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39
|
their
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40
|
what
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41
|
so
|
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42
|
up
|
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43
|
out
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44
|
if
|
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45
|
about
|
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46
|
who
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47
|
get
|
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48
|
which
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49
|
go
|
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50
|
me
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51
|
when
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52
|
make
|
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53
|
can
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54
|
like
|
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55
|
time
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56
|
no
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57
|
just
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58
|
him
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59
|
know
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60
|
take
|
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61
|
people
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62
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into
|
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63
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year
|
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64
|
your
|
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65
|
good
|
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66
|
some
|
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67
|
could
|
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68
|
them
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69
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see
|
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70
|
other
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71
|
than
|
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72
|
then
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73
|
now
|
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74
|
look
|
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75
|
only
|
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76
|
come
|
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77
|
its
|
|
78
|
over
|
|
79
|
think
|
|
80
|
also
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81
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