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Most Common Nouns Following Ordinals
DirectionsName the most common words following an ordinal (including numbers, first, last and next). Ordinal word, first letter, and total word count in the Corpus of Contemporary English shown. Note that the corpus counts numbers and the spelling of the number as separate.
#1 -- Last (Y - 108337) | #21 -- Second (H - 9592) | #41 -- First (R - 5247) |
#2 -- First (T - 91801) | #22 -- First (H - 9495) | #42 -- Last (M - 5159) |
#3 -- Last (W - 64686) | #23 -- Second (T - 9367) | #43 -- First (P - 5132) |
#4 -- Last (N - 54971) | #24 -- Last (S - 9126) | #44 -- First (Q - 5096) |
#5 -- Last (T - 32991) | #25 -- 21st (C - 9022) | #45 -- Last (D - 5024) |
#6 -- Next (Y - 31801) | #26 -- Next (M - 8782) | #46 -- Fourth (Q - 5017) |
#7 -- First (P - 25900) | #27 -- First (A - 8535) | #47 -- Second (T - 4745) |
#8 -- Last (M - 24595) | #28 -- First (L - 7701) | #48 -- Third (Q - 4517) |
#9 -- Next (D - 23747) | #29 -- Twentieth (C - 7144) | #49 -- Next (S - 4257) |
#10 -- Next (W - 23699) | #30 -- 19th (C - 6946) | #50 -- Last (W - 4173) |
#11 -- Next (T - 22058) | #31 -- Next (S - 6657) | |
#12 -- First (T - 17357) | #32 -- Next (G - 6389) | |
#13 -- Last (S - 16820) | #33 -- Third (W - 6283) | |
#14 -- First (D - 13564) | #34 -- Last (F - 6129) | |
#15 -- First (Y - 12098) | #35 -- Nineteenth (C - 6096) | |
#16 -- Next (M - 10704) | #36 -- Last (C - 5929) | |
#17 -- First (S - 10658) | #37 -- Next (T - 5820) | |
#18 -- 20th (C - 10654) | #38 -- Third (P - 5569) | |
#19 -- Last (T - 10107) | #39 -- Last (D - 5527) | |
#20 -- Next (D - 9905) | #40 -- Last (N - 5398) |
Rank
1-50
51-100
10 Hardest
10 Missed
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