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Discover the 25 most common adjectives for each letter of the alphabet. Check out the word frequency as taken from COCA - the corpus of words from 1990-2012. Get an insight into the Most Common Adjectives By Letter right here.

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25 Most Common Adjectives By Letter

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Name the 25 most common adjectives for each letter. Number of letters in each are shown. KEEP IN MIND some of these will be proper adjectives, have a ‘-‘ in them, or abbreviations in a handful of cases. DO NOT type in the ‘-‘ for hyphenated words. The word frequency is taken from the from the COCA website. The COCA corpus is based on words taken from various mediums from 1990-2012, so it is quite recent in its focus.

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Retracto

6 years ago

It lists “inc” under the letter I. I was trying to type “incredible.”