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Most Common Word Pairs – Choose First Word

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Begin by entering any word followed by a ‘.’ (period) to submit it. Then, name the 50 most popular words which follow that word according to the English Google Books corpus. Total word count of each pair and first letter of 2nd word shown.

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darin

10 months ago

FYI – this quiz has separate leaderboards for each first word.

Sinclaire

8 months ago

Would it be possible to get a “most popular words” list for this type of quiz? This way it would be easier to play the words that have more active leaderboards if you will.

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darin

8 months ago

Reply to Sinclaire

Remind me in a little bit (later this year) after more people have played.

prcstntr

10 months ago

I think the 20 missed is only showing ones that you missed that would have been in the top 20.

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darin

10 months ago

Reply to prcstntr

I think it only does that for the first person to take the quiz with that first word, afterwards it shouldn’t.

prcstntr

9 months ago

Reply to darin

Yes, I just checked on a word I’d already used, it’s working now.