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Test your knowledge with our UK Places Most Common Words Quiz. Can you name the words that appear most frequently in the names of UK places?

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UK Places Most Common Words

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Name the words which appear at least 7 times in the names of all 6K+ UK places (built-up areas and their subdivisions). # of occurrences and first letter shown. In place names, all hyphens were removed. Words constituted anything separated by a space in the resulting name, so a contraction will count as a single word. Object is most occurrences, not words.

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