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Test your knowledge of English verbs with this Most Common Verbs By Letter Quiz! Identify 25 of the 5,000 most common verbs for each letter & see why COCA is the gold standard for frequency information.

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25 Most Common Verbs By Letter

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ame the 25 most common (or less for X, Y, and Z as verbs must be in the 5,000 most common list to qualify) verbs for each letter. Number of letters in each are shown. See notes at bottom regarding the frequency list verbs were taken from. NOTES – The word frequency is taken from the 60,000 word frequency list from the COCA website. It is a LEMMA word list – meaning different forms of a verb are combined and counted together – i.e. “ate” is under “eat.” The COCA corpus is based on words taken from various mediums from 1990-2012, so it is quite recent in its focus. Verbs include all types of verbs, i.e. modal, auxiliary, etc.

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