Most Common English Words – Choose Number
DirectionsEnter ’50’, ‘100’, ‘250’, ‘5h’, ‘1k’, ‘2.5k’ or ‘5k’ to begin – then name that many of the most common English words. NOTES: the word frequency is taken from the Google Books corpus – a very wide ranging English corpus with books from many subjects some up to centuries old. It is NOT a LEMMA word list – meaning different forms of a word are counted SEPARATELY – ie. “be” and “are” are separate, as are “book” and “books.” As the corpus has many sequences that aren’t actually words I only allowed words that were on the TWL06 Internet Scrabble Club word list or in the Oxford English Dictionary for words over 15 characters.
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