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Most common words in English

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Summary

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  • Basic English
  • Frequency analysis, the study of the frequency of letters or groups of letters
  • Letter frequencies
  • Oxford English Corpus
  • Swadesh list, a compilation of basic concepts for the purpose of historical-comparative linguistics
  • Zipf's law, a theory stating that the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in a frequency table

Word lists

  • Dolch Word List, a list of frequently used English words
  • General Service List
  • New General Service List
  • Word lists by frequency

References

References

  1. "The Oxford English Corpus: Facts about the language". [[Oxford University Press]].
  2. "The Oxford English Corpus".
  3. [http://www.duboislc.org/EducationWatch/First100Words.html The First 100 Most Commonly Used English Words] {{Webarchive. link. (2013-06-16 .)
  4. Bill Bryson, ''The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way,'' Harper Perennial, 2001, page 58
  5. [[Benjamin Zimmer]]. June 22, 2006. [http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003274.html Time after time after time...]. [[Language Log]]. Retrieved June 22, 2006.
  6. Benjamin, Martin. (2019). "Polysemy in top 100 Oxford English Corpus words within Wiktionary".
  7. Garcia-Vega, M. (2010). "Teasing out the meaning of "out"". 29th International Conference on Lexis and Grammar.
  8. "out - English-French Dictionary".
  9. "Word frequency: based on 450 million word COCA corpus".
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