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Test your word knowledge with our Most Common Words By Letter & Length Quiz. Name the most common word for each word length and first letter.

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Name the most common word according to the Google Books corpus for each word length and first letter. Overall rank among all words shown.

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alcas

1 year ago

For the 3 letter words, how is “god” more common than “get” or “got”? At least in a Google Books n-gram search (which should be using the same corpus as the quiz), “god” is less common across the entire time period available.

subway13

10 years ago

why in 10+ the letters are in random order

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darin

10 years ago

Reply to subway13

oops – forgot to sort the 10+ words a-z…doing that now.

Aiwendil

7 years ago

Reply to darin

Looks like they’re back in random order.

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darin

7 years ago

Reply to Aiwendil

they look fine to me – maybe you are loading an older cached version of the quiz? try holding CTRL and clicking refresh.

Aiwendil

7 years ago

Reply to darin

Huh, they look fine now. Maybe it was a cache version thing.